Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultimately discredited Nixon. Critics also faulted Haig for having helped Nixon and Kissinger conduct the war in Viet Nam, including the 1970 incursion into Cambodia. Yet another cloud over his nomination was the persistent though contested allegation that the Nixon Administration ordered the CIA to organize the 1973 military coup...
...overturn the election result. "The military leaders have said that they now realize their job is to stay out of politics and fight this war," says a State Department official. Declares the Salvadoran army chief of operations, Colonel Miguel Antonio Mendéz: "In my opinion, the word coup has to disappear from our vocabulary...
...HOPE RESTS, albeit precariously, with Duarte. True, rumors abound that a Duarte victory would prompt a coup by the extremist parts of the army, who view Duarte as a dyed-in-the-wool Communist. But most sections of the armed forces will move probably regard a Duarte government at the surest way to keep the dollars coming...
...armies. St. Kitts-Nevis established a defense force in 1967, but found it to be so expensive and unproductive that nearly 14 years later it converted all its soldiers to policemen and firemen. Dominica disbanded its military force in 1981 after many key officers were implicated in a failed coup attempt. Indeed, with the exception of Antigua and Barbados, the islands have been guarded mainly by policemen since they began to win independence from Britain in the 1960s. "They had no form of transportation or weapons for use in the field," says Donald Dunn, the Barbados-based U.S. Navy commander...
...accounts, Juan Carlos has not let success go to his head. Since he warded off a military coup in 1981, the urbane, cosmopoli- lan monarch has lived modestly in his palace in Madrid...