Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This must be a coup-oops...
...after they arrived at Mahé's airport, their vacation plans went abruptly awry. When a surprised immigration official discovered a gun in one of the visitors' bags, the chap's companions whipped out automatic weapons. Obviously, this was no ordinary package tour. This was a coup, and the sportsmen were mercenaries hired to topple the left-wing regime of President Albert...
...fencers are slated for a heavy winter schedule, beginning with the Christmas Invitational and meets against Brandeis. Brown and Rhode Island next week. But last night's coup has inspired the Crimson, and members of both teams predict a strong season...
...French official proposed that the killing be done by a group of Libyan exiles, trained and controlled by the French. The U.S. would not be directly involved. The official did, however, ask for a general expression of Administration support for the venture and assistance in the aftermath of the coup. Specifically, he wanted the U.S. to give quick diplomatic recognition to Gaddafi's successor. He also sought assurances that the U.S. would be prepared to interdict Libyan harbors and airfields in the event of a move by Moscow on Libya to protect the vast supply of Soviet weapons...
...tampered with. All the modernizations are properly minimal, though an anachronism or two grates on the nerves--nobody holds bear-baitings in a Hollywood garden. The romantic setting proves its appropriateness most triumphantly in the discovery of a way to get away with Malvolio's yellow stockings (an imaginative coup too tunny to reveal...