Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closely monitored. About two weeks ago, in the remote southeast corner of Libya, where that country borders Egypt, Chad and Sudan, Gaddafi began to assemble tanks, troops, aircraft and equipment. The target of his destructive designs was unclear. Sudanese officials recently told Washington that Gaddafi was plotting an elaborate coup against their President Gaafar Nimeiri. Having trained Sudanese dissidents as his agents, Gaddafi planned air raids on Khartoum and a takeover of the capital's airport. Last week, however, the Sudanese disclosed that the Libyan-backed saboteurs had been arrested...
...fighting spread to other Bangladesh cities, bands of students continued guerrilla-style raids, beating civilians, burning shops and attacking buses. By the time the army had restored order, three people were dead and 300 wounded in the worst violence since Ershad took power in a bloodless coup eleven months...
Navasky admitted that the Nation did no additional reporting, not even to check how much of what Ford revealed was new. Nonetheless, contended Navasky, "What we did was a journalistic coup, and perfectly legal." Last week in Manhattan, however, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Owen, ruling on a suit brought by Ford's publishers, Harper & Row and the Reader's Digest Association, concluded that the Nation had violated federal copyright law. Said Owen: "The Nation took what was essentially the heart of the book...
There is something larger at play here, behind the emotionally gripping collage of inner-city Asian slums, spellbinding rural rice-paddies, and the unfolding violence of the communist coup. Weir also seems to be grappling with the essential human misery of the vast majority of Asia, indeed of mankind--not a new theme, to be sure, but one rarely addressed honestly by filmmakers. Even when directors treat elemental human problems--hunger, disease, poverty--they usually depict them as an incidental sideshow to the more natural cinematic book of political machinations. Misery becomes a political cliche, a problem to be solved...
...Billy Kwan, a diminutive Eurasian photographer who seems to be the most well-connected person in town. Kwan, played by a woman, Linda Hunt, takes a liking to Hamilton and gets him a prized interview with the leader of the Indonesian communists who are about to launch their doomed coup of 1965. An unlikely team is born...