Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet news agency TASS began releasing the proposal to the world. Whether or not the offer was a ploy, its publication forced the Administration to produce an immediate response. Said one official: "If we rejected the move, or said we would study it, they would have scored a propaganda coup...
...Aborted Coup...
...officers did not wholeheartedly accept the strikes and social reforms that accompanied pluralism. On February 23, 1981, some of them tried to crush the glass-slipper state with a military coup. They claimed the backing of the sovereign. Juan Carlos took to national television to denounce their power play and rally his own faction...
Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages Juan Marichal notes that the abortive coup underscored the link between the crown and the new democracy. "The people in the army who wanted to turn back the clock knew that they couldn't do it without killing the king." He adds that the monarch's response made clear that "loyalty to him is loyalty to the constitution...
...brilliant coup to create the show," says William Small, the former president of NBC News and former vice president of CBS News who now heads United Press International...