Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elections" are scheduled in the country. Four new right wing parties, including one headed by the grisly Roberto D'Aubuisson, have joined the campaign, which the left is boycotting; the ultrarightists are complaining about Christian Democrat policies, and their presence in the election will help insure that the "creeping coup" fron the right continues. Meanwhile, resistance grows; Col. Adol Arnoldo Majano, for example, has spoken out in recent weeks against the Duarte government he once served. He has said President Duarte pretends he cannot control the death squads of the right. In reality, Majano insists, Duarte has never made...
After the mercenaries waged a 20-hour airport battle with government forces, the coup collapsed. Forty-four of the mercenaries escaped by hijacking an Air India Boeing 707 that had landed during the battle; the others were dead, arrested or in hiding. President René launched a nationwide man hunt and ordered all foreigners in the islands-including visiting U.S. Ambassador William Harrop-confined to their hotels...
...South African army units as well as a few Americans, Britons and other Europeans-were reportedly paid $1,000 and promised a further $10,000 if their mission was successful. It was unclear who put up the money. René, 46, who was established in power by a coup in 1977, has plenty of enemies. His Marxist leanings have embittered wealthy islanders and prompted two previous coup attempts...
This time the mercenaries planned to infiltrate Mahé after they landed and stage the coup later in the week, possibly as the first phase of a bigger operation involving local sympathizers and a back-up force of other mercenaries. But the premature Shootout left the scheme in shambles and the first wave of attackers stranded at the airport-until they captured the control tower and gave the Air India plane permission to touch down. The landing was nearly a disaster; the pilot just missed a Seychelles army truck parked on the runway and was forced to hop over another...
...resemble a throw pillow or a Kliban-style meatloaf, but, awake and hungry, the average feline, one of the most highly evolved predators in the natural world, is capable of dispatching a dozen mice at a brief sitting. Alarmingly, it tends to dawdle before administering the coup de grâce. Behavioralists believe this happens because cats are programmed by a primitive, vestigial stalking mechanism. Cats toy with their prey because they may be teaching kittens to hunt or may be exhibiting their prowess; instinctively cats do not always relate killing with the need to eat. When they finally...