Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After reading your obituary on Leonid Brezhnev, my first thoughts were that he was not such a bad guy after all. However, the details about his role in the bloody Afghanistan coup brought me back to reality. Danny Van Loo Nieuwpoort, Belgium
...Administration has been flirting with the Guatemala regime ever since General Efrain Rios Montt took power in a coup last spring. Reagan wants to end a four-year freeze on arms sales to that country imposed by then-President Carter because of serious human rights violations...
GENERAL Efrain Rios Montt, catapulted to power last spring through a coup, is a born-again Christian. The rightist leader worked as an evangelist before assuming his current duties and was affiliated with the Church of the Word, which has links to the Gospel Outreach group in Eureka, California...
...have not had a change of government-nor a coup d'état! The change of leader can have some importance, of course, but we have had a collective leadership in the Soviet Union for years. The Central Committee and the Politburo were the chief decision-making bodies under Brezhnev, and they will be under Andropov...
...while, another dispute loomed, involving two rival delegations from Chad. One represented former President Goukouni Oueddei, who had seized power with Libyan military backing in November 1981. The other was led by current President Hissene Habre, who was ousted by Oueddei but regained power in a counter-coup five months ago. Gaddafi demanded that the opposition Oueddei group be seated as the official Chadian delegation...