Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coup de grâce came last week when the magazine featured six pages of swimsuits worn by such notable nobles as-exactement-Princesses Caroline and Stephanie...
What kind of coalition Peres might form remained uncertain. Two days after the Weizman coup, the Labor leader met with Shamir at Jerusalem's King David Hotel for further talks on the possibility of forming a national unity government. Though the two sides have been discussing such a step for almost three weeks, Shamir so far has refused to accept Peres as the Prune Minister in a Labor-Likud union. After the meeting both men agreed that progress had been made, but a pact remained elusive. Likud and Labor representatives also met to settle differences over foreign policy. Though...
...worked his first convention in 1964 as Cronkite's errand boy, being a floor reporter is "the most intense experience you can have." In 1980, Wallace scooped the other networks, albeit by seconds, on the choice of George Bush as Ronald Reagan's running mate, and that coup helped win him a job as NBC's White House correspondent. At the Democratic Convention in San Francisco, he screened out rivals from an exclusive interview with Joan Mondale by having his crew and her aides form a human fence. Last week he was able to use more traditional...
...conventions were another long-awaited step in the country's slow return to democracy, which has been carefully controlled by the military. Since the generals came to power in a 1964 coup, five of their number have served as President. But the last two generals have been gradually carrying out an abertura, or political opening, which has included amnesty for political prisoners, a partial lifting of censorship and more opposition-party participation in government. The results of the conventions, however, could signal not only the end of military control but the beginning of rule by an opposition party...
Costa Rica, long an island of tranquillity in troubled Central America, is experiencing some unaccustomed turbulence. Minister of Security Angel Edmundo Solano Calderón put the nation's 6,000-man civil guard on "maximum alert" two weeks ago, citing rumors of a coup. After President Luis Alberto Monge ridiculed the takeover scare as "crazy," a chastened Solano said he had only been joking. But a few days later Monge asked Solano and the 14 other members of his Cabinet to resign, as well as nearly all of the country's 33 ambassadors...