Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah kingdom's key internal-security unit. The tribally based guard protects the country's main cities, oilfields and communications facilities, and was conceived as a deliberate counterweight to Saudi Arabia's being army. Its ultimate purpose is to prevent a military coup from being launched against the royal family...
...virtually free of terror. "There are no death squads in front of the National Palace any more," reported one U.S. congressional staff member wryly after a visit. Guatemalans stroll the capital's streets again, night clubs are full and handguns are much less evident than before the March coup. Rios Montt has dismantled police and army death squads and put the national police chief, Germán Chupina, under house ar rest. He has also threatened that former Interior Minister Donaldo Alvarez Ruiz and other members of the old regime who have fled the country will be arrested...
...apart from his prayer chain, Rios Montt has no firm power base. In time, that deficiency could cause him trouble. Already some of the young officers who put him into power are chafing over his seizure of the presidency last week and his incessant moralizing. "We made this coup d'état to do away with continuismo, "complains one lieutenant. "Now this man is taking us back to the situation that led us to mount the coup in the first place." in the first place." - By Spencer Davidson...
Though some crowd turnouts were smaller than anticipated, 1.9 million Britons attended the papal events, and millions more were glued to TV screens to view the first visit in history of a Pope to Britain. John Paul II pulled off a kind of diplomatic and personal coup that should move forward the cause of Christian unity, if not world peace. Many who viewed the Pope's impressive performance were struck by his simplicity, straightforwardness and warmth...
...President Haile Selassie was overthrown in the mid-1970s. Abai's services were so valuable, however, that the new government sent a car and driver to take him from prison to his office every day. A. M. A. Mulith became minister of finance in Bangladesh after last month's coup. Sergio Bitar lost his job as minister of mines in Chile when the government of Salvadore Allende was toppled...