Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gaddafi claims as Libyan territorial waters, and two of the fleet's F-14s promptly shot down a pair of attacking Libyan Su-22s. The rash, Soviet-supplied Libyan leader is a bête noire to the Administration: last February when Gaddafi was suspected of fomenting a coup against the pro-U.S. Sudanese regime, Washington sent four AWACS to neighboring Egypt and the carrier Nimitz to Libya's coast...
...downfall surprised no one except perhaps himself. Rumors of plots to oust him had circulated so often during the 16-month rule of Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt that observers lost count of the actual attempts. Had there been seven? Eight? Ten? Whatever the tally, last week's coup turned out to be for keeps. After a brief gun duel outside the National Palace in Guatemala City, the country's military leaders toppled Rios Montt and replaced him with Defense Minister Oscar Humberto Mejía Victores...
When Rios Montt joined the coup that overthrew the government of General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia in March 1982, he made for a refreshing change. Rios Montt reduced corruption and abolished many of the government-sanctioned death squads that had haunted the country. Though his tactics cost the lives of thousands of innocent Guatemalans, the new leader succeeded in subduing a threat by 4,000 leftist guerrillas last year...
...tendons at a secret military hideout reserved for China's top leaders outside Peking. Mao knew about Lin's plot almost from the beginning, and, with the help of Premier Chou Enlai, deliberately chose to kill Lin at the very spot Lin had selected for his own coup...
Moreover, Yao's tale raises even more questions than it answers. Could Lin, one of China's greatest generals, really have been as reckless and incompetent, just at the point of starting the coup, as he appears in this book? What plausibility is there in the statement that Lin Liguo planned to blow up Mao's train, traveling at 70 m.p.h., with ground-to-ground missiles guided from more than 90 miles away? Even less credible is Yao's theory that the Trident, with Lin Liguo aboard, was hit by missiles while still in Chinese airspace...