Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bahrain's rulers are readier today to take the political risks of opening their country to a more substantial American military presence, because they are more worried than they were a year ago about their security. They are still recovering from the shock of an abortive coup d'état last December. It was staged by dissident Shi'ites, members of a Muslim sect that dominates Iran and constitutes a majority in Bahrain. The nation is an obvious target for Iranian attempts to export the Ayatullah Khomeini's Islamic revolution. One of the masterminds...
...when authorities early this month uncovered a detailed army conspiracy to seize power on the eve of the election. Three artillery colonels have been arrested and held for trial on charges of sedition, and other plotters were placed under house arrest. The two major conspirators convicted for the 1981 coup attempt to seize the Cortes, Lieut. General Jaime Miláns del Bosch and Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero Madrid were suspected of involvement in the new plot and swiftly transferred to different prisons. The country reacted calmly, but the aborted coup injected a new factor of suspense into the campaign...
...change in Updike's life, for all its attendant pain, was quickly reflected in his fiction. He startled nearly everyone with The Coup...
...Palestinians might be tempted to try again to seize control of the whole country in their quest for a state of their own. But some P.L.O. radicals concede that they are reluctant to overthrow the King because, as one put it, "the minute there is an anti-Hussein coup in Amman we know the Israelis will move into Jordan, and we certainly don't want that." The monarch once despised by the Palestinians is now regarded as a kind of Arab insurance policy against a new Israeli blitz...
...papers that protect them from the police. The Deuxième claims to have killed or wounded some 4,000 rebels during the Algerian war, while only 171 of its men were killed and 427 wounded. The unit remained neutral when the First Foreign Parachute Regiment backed an attempted coup against President Charles de Gaulle and was subsequently disbanded...