Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take, for example, West Germany, whose government has done everything in its power short of blindfolding itself to ignore the military coup in Poland. Until his meeting with President Reagan on Tuesday, Chancellor Schmidt had never publicly acknowledged a Soviet hand in the crisis. Schmidt has a crucial stake in good relations with the Eastern bloc. His Social Democratic party got where it is by advocating Ostpolitik, a policy that views trade with the East as the basis for an eventual normalization of relations--if not outright reunification--with East Germany. In fact, Schmidt--who was visiting East German leader...
...source close to the Institute who asked not to be identified, yesterday confirmed Friedan's selection, saying, "It's a great coup to have Ms. Friedan take four months out of her busy schedule to be here at the Institute...
...flier in the "export of revolution" during the '60s and '70s, when the Peking leadership was still enamored of Mao's idea that global disorder would hasten the Communist millennium. The results ranged from disappointing in Africa to disastrous in Indonesia, where a Peking-sponsored coup d'état backfired, leading to the destruction of the local Communist Party and official hostility toward China that lingers to this day. Partly because of that experience, partly because of their disillusionment with Mao's constant reinterpretation of Marxism, and partly because of their desire to find allies...
Omar Torrijos Herrera, 52, an ebullient soldier who, after leading a 1968 coup, became Panama's de facto strongman, though he served as official chief of government only from 1972 to 1978. A mystery figure of no known ideology but possessing formidable political ability, he employed shrewd negotiating skills and a talent for manipulating volatile nationalist sentiment to bring about the 1977-78 treaties restoring the Panama Canal Zone to his country's sovereignty...
...years has transformed this North African desert wasteland. In 1969, armed with Islamic zeal and a near fanatical belief that he was the heir to Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's pan-Arabic nationalism, Gaddafi and eleven other young officers deposed the conservative King Idris in a bloodless coup. Gaddafi has since established iron political control of his countrymen, largely by spreading Libya's abundant oil wealth among them. Says Fouad Zlitni, a true believer: "The people decide everything, but it is the thoughts of Brother Gaddafi which guide us on to the proper path...