Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squabble marked the first open split among Bishop's youthful band, who staged a real coup in 1979 with only 40 men and a handful of creaky weapons. At the end of last week came the humiliating news that the People's Revolutionary Army would step in to restore order. What happens now? Tune in next week, same station...
...coup! Wait...
...incorrect. With traditional quirkiness, the Swedish Academy last week bestowed the Nobel laurel (and approximately $193,000) on English Novelist William Golding. The decision dumbfounded nearly everybody and drove one of the 18 academy members into an unprecedented public complaint. Artur Lundkvist, 77, called the selection of Golding a "coup" and described the new laureate as "decent but hardly in the Nobel Prize class." Lars Gyllensten, permanent secretary of the academy, countered this objection by saying Lundkvist has "the soul of a magpie" and then announced, a day later, that the maverick "has beaten a retreat and acknowledged that Golding...
...also a major propaganda coup for the I.R.A. The escape came after a wave of arrests and convictions during the past year (thanks to the testimony of several "supergrasses," or onetime terrorists turned informers) that has severely shaken the organization. The slang term to grass means to tip off policemen. Evidence from just one supergrass, Christopher Black, has led to 35 convictions, including that of Kevin Artt. Largely because of the informers, political murders in Northern Ireland have fallen dramatically, from 97 in 1982 to 47 so far this year. That sort of success led Ulster authorities to expect some...
...participation in Korean politics began when he was elected to the National Assembly. In 1961, he had become such a prominent member of the Korean National Assembly that he was imprisoned after General Park Chung Hee staged a military coup...