Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PANAMA CITY, Panama--Troops loyal to Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega recaptured the headquarters of the Panamanian Defense Forces yesterday and declared that they had crushed an attempted coup...
...much of August, with the Soviet President off on his annual vacation in the Crimea, the capital showed symptoms of panic. Conservative members of the Politburo were warning that the country could be slipping out of control. Government officials were speculating openly about the possibility of a coup. A rock group climbed the Soviet hit parade with a song whose refrain was "We are anticipating civil war." Arriving home, Gorbachev, looking tanned and vigorous after four weeks on the Black Sea shore, went straight to the Kremlin television studio and accused conservatives and radicals of creating an atmosphere of "despair...
...their posts four men he apparently considers more reliable. He won unanimous approval of his compromise plan to bring forward the next party congress to October 1990 so he can purge still more recalcitrants on the 251-member Central Committee. With Gorbachev flexing his muscles, talk of a coup -- at least the Kremlin-corridor variety that ousted Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 -- appeared misplaced. But at the same time his virtuoso display of political control highlighted a central question: If he can hire and fire the country's most powerful men, why hasn't perestroika -- his plan to restructure the economy...
...predict the price tag for the war could total . as much as $2 billion by the end of 1990. Officials also warn that if the Colombian Supreme Court, as expected, strikes down President Barco's power to extradite criminals to the U.S., he may be forced to stage a coup to continue his fight...
...moves demonstrated Gorbachev's firm control at the pinnacle of Soviet power at a time when economic failures and ethnic violence prompted some Soviets to fret openly about the possibility of a coup or civil war. Gorbachev is both the nation's president and the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party...