Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groups were all fundamentalist organizations linked by a conspiracy "to fight the government and seize power." The ambitions of the conspirators were thwarted on Sept. 25, when many were arrested during Sadat's wide-ranging crackdown on dissenters. Concluding that they were not strong enough to stage a coup, the plotters reportedly concentrated on just assassinating the President. After his death, they also thought of dropping bombs from rooftops on the funeral procession as it wound its way through Cairo's streets. As it turned out, the funeral was held on the carefully guarded parade grounds because...
...native land, did the younger Papandreou plunge into Greek politics. His father may have regretted the decision. Andreas' radical stands, including his opposition to the monarchy, weakened his father's centrist-left government, which fell after only 17 months, and the ensuing political instability provoked the military coup of "the colonels...
...right-wing government immediately threw Andreas into Athens' dread Averof prison. Freed after eight months, he moved to Stockholm, then to Toronto. It was there that his anti-American and anti-NATO sentiments blossomed. Papandreou loudly claimed that the CIA had engineered the colonels' coup, and blamed Western Europeans for not opposing the military regime more strongly. To Papandreou, Greece's ancient enemy Turkey, also a NATO ally, is more of a threat than the Soviet Union. That notion was reinforced in 1974, when Turkey invaded Cyprus, an independent island nation with a predominantly Greek population...
Karmal, 52, is a revolutionary of un abashedly pro-Soviet leanings. In the mid-'60s he formed a faction of the People's Democratic [Communist] Party that hewed closely to Moscow's line. After the 1978 coup that brought rivals in a more in dependent party faction to power, he was sent off into diplomatic exile as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. In December 1979, when the Soviets invaded and killed his predecessor, Hafizullah Amin, Karmal emerged as the new leader...
Mubarak may not be able to continue the peace process, the journalist said. "Because the assassination was not a coup formal structure remains. But is formal structure enough?" Sid Ahmad asked, adding that Mubarak has "no political background...