Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could provide no more than a framework into which the week's news and analysis would be set. One extraordinary example: an exclusive TIME interview last Friday with a KGB defector, now in British hands, who tells how Brezhnev overruled KGB advice about Afghanistan, and how a bloody coup followed...
...made public. The issue was immediately seized on by the Australian press, whose management was bitterly opposed to Gough Whitlam's Labor government, as a prime emblem of artsy socialist mismanagement. The propaganda value squeezed from this episode certainly helped many Australians accept the virtual coup d'etat by which Whitlam's government was dismissed...
Indeed, the main fear hanging over the election was the possibility that the country's strongly franquista military leadership would pre-empt the leftist victory by force. One aborted coup plot had been uncovered early last month, and rumors of other such attempts abounded throughout the campaign. Some analysts continued to believe that army hard-liners might try to stage an uprising during the delicate transition period by to the formation of a Socialist government next month...
...cuts in social programs that so far have largely escaped the ax-above all, Social Security-a slash in the military budget and a rise in taxes. But Reagan will not even discuss paring back military spending, and he said in his latest news conference that only a "palace coup" could move him to accept higher taxes. The Democrats have also shied away from advocating less military spending or higher taxes, while some call for publicworks programs that would make the deficits even worse...
...seemed like just the sort of sales coup that a fast-tracking high-tech firm would want to talk up. Thus when Andrew Corp. of Orland Park, Ill., which makes sophisticated telecommunications gear, managed to land a $3.5 million contract to supply microwave antennas to a French firm, company officials preened publicly at their achievement. The customer, Thomson-CSF, would be using the equipment to help establish a complex communications network that would serve much of the Yamal region of Soviet Siberia, where the U.S.S.R.'s vast 3,700-mile natural gas pipeline to Western Europe would originate. Then...