Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jaruzelski's tough line could not hide the fact that his regime was in serious trouble. Deputy Premier Rakowski, who visited Bonn two weeks ago to explain the imposition of martial law to the West Germans, confessed to a private gathering of diplomats and journalists that the military coup had brought Poland "back to square one." He gave the impression that the military, having grabbed power in Warsaw, was uncertain about how to proceed and might prolong martial law in definitely because of a lack of alternatives. The main problem, said Rakowski, was that the regime had no potential...
...pattern was distressingly familiar. After a New Year's Eve coup, Jerry Rawlings, 34, a former air force flight lieutenant, moved ruthlessly to fashion what he called a "people's government." Working with friends in the military, he summarily dismissed Ghana's parliament, banned political parties and suspended the nation's constitution. By the end of last week the new military government had called for special "people's tribunals" to try Ghanaians, including government officials, arrested for crimes "against the people." The announcement raised fears that the takeover would follow the course of Rawlings...
...coup was the fifth since 1966, when former President Kwame Nkrumah, who was in power when Ghana got its independence from Britain in 1957, was overthrown following widespread discontent over food shortages, corruption and extravagant government spending. Ghana has since become a case study in African nationalism gone wrong, and lately a prototype for young African countries beset with similar problems. In West Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Upper Volta and Liberia have all suffered similar revolutions within the past two years; The Gambia and Sierra Leone have narrowly avoided similar revolts. Much of the difficulty, as Rawlings insists, stems from government...
...export earnings. Inflation has reached an estimated 120%. At the official exchange rate, a loaf of bread costs the equivalent of $7.27. The anger of workers, particularly those in the cities who are unable to feed their families, helped create the atmosphere that led to Ghana's latest coup...
Whites have also been angered and alarmed by some of the Prime Minister's recent actions. Invoking the emergency powers once used against insurgent blacks, Mugabe has jailed Wally Stuttaford, 64, a grandfatherly Member of Parliament, on suspicion of having plotted a coup against the government. A 24-year-old Dutch-born auto mechanic was detained in Salisbury and later deported simply for drawing mustaches and horns on posters of Mugabe and Zimbabwe's President, the Reverend Canaan Banana. In addition, whites complain that groups of tourists have been roughed up by soldiers-in one instance, for stumbling...