Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fourth speaker at the forum was Stephen Kinzer, the Latin American correspondent for the Boston Globe and author of the soon-to-be-published book, "Bitter Fruit," an account of the CIA-backed coup in Guatemala in 1954. Kinzer dealt specifically with the U.S. involvement in Guatemala, giving historical background and precedent for current CIA affairs...
Notably absent from all this activity was any hint that the budget might be shaped primarily by Congress, as it was in the late 1970s. In a significant political coup, Reagan last year overrode legislative machinery that Congress had designed specifically to give itself permanent control of the budget process. For the moment at least, dazed lawmakers will have to accept, reject or amend presidential proposals rather than enact their own. The President's triumph was the latest skirmish in a seesaw struggle over spending that has gone on since the founding days of the Republic, even though Article...
...economic program remains popular. There are arguments for and against the President's 1981 blitz: on the pro side, that only a ramrod approach could force a reversal of economic policy through a Congress that special-interest pressures dispose to delay; on the anti side, that the budget coup violated the spirit of governmental checks and balances. But in the end, Congress bowed because it was convinced that Reagan really did have a national mandate for his policy. He will probably continue to get his way so long-but only so long-as he retains that mandate...
...coup was Ghana's fifth since the former British colony, once called the Gold Coast, achieved independence in 1957. Ghana has always held a special place in the hearts of African nationalists: it was the first of the black African colonies to become independent, and it was led by the eloquent and audacious Kwame Nkrumah. Ghana (pop. 11.5 million) has remained one of the world's largest cocoa producers, but its economic downfall began even before Nkrumah was overthrown...
There seems to be no place that Attenborough's camera has not gone: to all seven continents and the seas that separate them, into the air and deep under the water. One coup was capturing on film a living coelacanth, a fish once thought to lave died out 70 million years ago. With a brief foreword by Attenborough, whose unpretentiousness has an eloquence all its own, the footage of an extremely ugly fish Becomes oddly moving. The coelacanth has limblike fins, and it is likely that one of its ancestors was the first to climb onto he land...