Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already looking for a candidate to run against Duarte. The man most frequently mentioned is René Fortin Magaña, 49, an attorney and former member of the short-lived "progressive" junta of 1960. That regime was replaced by a series of military governments before the leftist coup in 1979 led to the present junta...
...many ironies of Argentina is that Timerman was among the majority of citizens who welcomed that military coup in 1976. In the years before and after the 1973 return to power of former Dictator Perón, Argentina suffered the worst bout of terrorism on the continent. Thousands of left-wing Perónist disciples, known as Montoneros, allied with Trotskyite guerrillas to terrorize and murder at will. Among their victims: onetime Argentine President Pedro Aramburu, General Juan Carlos Sánchez, commander of the Argentine army Second Corps, and John Patrick Egan, a U.S. government representative. Some 700 people...
...flight was one more coup for Challenger's designer, Paul MacCready, 55, of Pasadena, Calif. Four years ago, the innovative aeronautical engineer achieved an aviation milestone when another of his diaphanous, lightweight craft, the Gossamer Condor, became the first plane to complete a 1.15-mile, figure-eight course on human power alone (generated by a bicycle-like set of pedals). Two years later MacCready's Gossamer Albatross made the first such muscle-powered crossing over the English Channel...
...therefore a real coup for Coe to entice Plummer (whose Macbeth he directed years ago) back to the AST after a 26-year absence. While the historical Henry V ascended the throne at 26, Plummer is today roughly twice that age (51 or 53, depending on your source). It would be idle to expect him to recapture that youth for which the French dauphin insults Henry with a present of tennis balls. With more than a dozen important Shakespearean parts under his belt, not to mention other major classical roles. Plummer remains at the height of his phenomenal vocal control...
Despite the fury of the blast, Radio Iran did not report for three hours that an explosion at party headquarters had caused "considerable damage to life and property." Fearing that a coup d'état might be under way, the government cut communications to the outside world...