Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despotic regime of Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy, Hughes was beaten up while covering pre-independence rallies. Five years later, the Marxist government of Maurice Bishop began harassing him because of his editorial independence. Three weeks ago, Hughes was thrown into jail for having reported on the violent coup that brought down Bishop. Freed one day after the U.S. invasion, Hughes, who is also a part-time reporter for the London Sunday Tunes, ABC and TIME, offers his view of his country's future...
...easy to point to armies invading your territory and say that that is aggression. But there are many forms of indirect aggression, such as subversion or changing a government through a coup d'etat with the threat of an external power." In the Reagan Administration's view, Grenada is a case in point: the U.S. may have intervened directly two weeks ago, but the Soviets and the Cubans have been engaging in indirect aggression in the Western Hemi sphere for years. Nor is the problem confined to superpowers. The Sandinista government of Nicaragua provides tactical aid and support...
...invasion was conducted with the declared purpose of protecting the lives of 1,000 Americans who were trapped on the island after a bloody, left-wing military coup. Although six of Grenada's worried Caribbean neighbors had requested the U.S. action and supplied a token force of 400 men to the operation, many nations accused the U.S. of violating international law. Still, as the surprisingly difficult military operation continued, the Administration was able to produce evidence that Grenada was becoming a Soviet-Cuban base that threatened U.S. strategic interests in the Caribbean...
...Including Alister Hughes, a prominent Grenadian journalist who had been arrested after reporting on this month's coup for TIME and other publications...
...company scored a major coup when it outbid West Germany's Adidas for the right to sponsor the U.S. track and field team from 1981 through 1988. Vitale is paying $8.2 million to the team to outfit the American athletes in exchange for the right to proclaim Kappa a team sponsor. Kappa will furnish the team's competitive attire, while Levi Strauss, the U.S. Olympic team's overall clothing sponsor, will provide the track and field athletes with such items as presentation suits to be worn on the victory stand. The arrangement, says Vitale, has already paid...