Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former general who seized the presidency of Pakistan in a 1977 military coup, Zia seemed determined last week to erase the image of a dictator. He buzzed all over Washington in a public appearance-packed visit. He gave press conferences, consulted with top Administration officials and subjected himself to probing questions from members of Congress about human rights violations and Pakistan's nuclear program. At the White House, President Reagan laid out the red carpet for Zia and threw in high military hoopla, including troop reviews and 21-gun salutes...
...revelations that President Babrak Karmal was on the KGB payroll for years was common knowledge in Kabul. That Mohammed Daoud conducted widespread slaughter, that the Afghans were slaughtering one another and that the 1978 coup overthrowing Daoud was arranged hastily "in desperation" from jail cells are false and serve a propaganda line that Moscow has long promoted...
...Hafizullah Amin emerge "from nowhere." Long the No. 2 man in the Khalq faction of the Communist party, Amin was the key man in organizing the 1978 coup and immediately emerged as the strongman of the Taraki regime. These and other questionable assertions would not have escaped the attention of any high-ranking KGB officer specializing in the area. One is forced to wonder about Mr. Kuzichkin's motives in making these statements. Rosanne Klass, Director Afghanistan Information Center New York City
...priority. He followed up two weeks ago by endorsing a congressional proposal to raise the federal gasoline tax 5¢ per gal. and use the money for repair of the nation's highways, bridges and mass-transit systems, although he had said as recently as September that only a "palace coup" could...
There was no coup, just a White House debate in which both sides used "the Reagan argument" with particular skill. Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis insisted that the 5¢ boost should be considered a "user fee," calculated to make those who drive on federally financed highways pay for their upkeep. The contention has some merit, but its real point was to avoid that awful word tax. Stockman countered by arguing that whatever it might be called, using a federal impost to finance repair work done by states and localities would violate Reagan's New Federalism concept. The President, however, recalled that...