Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heyday, the Montonero organization grew in strength to about 20,000, including some 5,000 fighters. Under Firmenich's direction, they carried out countless assassinations and bombings that were financed through kidnapings. The guerrillas withered away, however, during the bloody repression that followed Argentina's 1976 military coup...
...third time in as many weeks, national security forces went on alert, surrounding Guatemala City and searching cars on highways leading into the capital. The occasion was the six-month anniversary of the Aug. 8 coup that brought General Oscar Humberto Mejía Víctores to power. Although the day passed without any protest or disruption, the heightened security and the absence of any official celebration underscored the extreme uneasiness felt by the government of Central America's most populous (7.9 million) republic. As in neighboring El Salvador, a leftist insurgency poses a permanent challenge...
...rivals. Today, the only threat to Khomeini's power comes from within the army--that gigantic military establishment built by the late Shah. For four years the Khomeini regime has used the war to keep the army out of the capital and thus avert the possibility of a military coup d'etat. In order to prevent the emergence of military heroes, it has tried to attribute as few military victories as possible to the old army and as many as possible to Khomeini's revolutionary guard. Yet despite Khomeini's efforts, the army has accumulated both might and glory from...
...will come under public pressure to relax political measures and to raise economic conditions to peacetime standards. It should be close to impossible for him to meet these standards. And with troops returned from the front on hand near the capital, the time will be ripe for a military coup d'etat...
...many citizens seem quite content to postpone elections indefinitely. Their fears have been fanned by the ominous reappearance of the island's most distinguished and distrusted politician, Sir Eric Gairy, 61. Grenada's first post-independence Prune Minister, Gairy ruled the island from 1974 until the bloodless coup staged by Maurice Bishop and his Marxist-oriented New Jewel Movement five years later. During that time, Sir Eric won dubious international fame by claiming that he had been divinely chosen and compounded it by urging the United Nations to look into UFOs. More alarming, he backed up his mysticism...