Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Banisadr's special ties with the army hardened the suspicions of his fundamentalist foes, who already distrusted his "Western ideas," gleaned during his 16 years of exile in Paris. They convinced Khomeini that such close bonds between the President and the military could lead a counterrevolutionary coup. Vowing that he would "cut everybody's hands off" who threatened Islam, Khomeini fired Banisadr as commander in chief. He then issued a stern warning to military officers: "Politics in the army is worse than heroin. It destroys the army from inside...
Life in all parts of beloved Bangladesh has returned to normal," Dacca's state radio announced triumphantly last week. For 48 hours Bangladesh had teetered toward civil war, following a coup attempt in the southeastern port of Chittagong in which President Ziaur Rahman, 45, was gunned down by an assault force of mutinous troops. Major General Abul Manzur, 40, who led the putsch against his longtime rival, had hoped for help from the military across the country. Instead, army units stormed the rebellious military garrison in Chittagong. While trying to flee to Burma, Manzur was captured and summarily shot...
...replaced by the license to kill for them. Timerman was a Zionist, a social democrat, a moderate-and altogether too intimate with key figures on all sides of the Argentine vortex. His privileged position could not last. In April 1977, one year after the military took power in a coup, he was kidnaped by members of the ultraright Argentine First Army Corps...
Since the right-wing coup attempt in February, Calvo-Sotelo's Union of the Democratic Center government, fearing the wrath of the military, has not moved decisively against the arrested officers. Calvo-Sotelo believes that any attempt to neutralize the generals' political influence will simply provoke more outbreaks of right-wing terror, perhaps culminating in a successful coup that would indeed bring the military and its allies to power a la turca...
Manjur's confident proclamation of a coup seemed premature. The official Bangladesh radio in the capital of Dacca assured the country's 90 million people that the government was safely in the hands of Vice President Abdus Sattar. The government declared a state of emergency and called upon the rebels to surrender. Moreover, stressed the state radio, all international agreements remained in force...