Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...N.R.A. leadership tried to keep the association from becoming primarily a political pressure group, and even decided to move the organization's headquarters out of Washington, D.C. But a coup led by zealous gun-law opponents at the 1977 N.R.A. convention rescinded the move and replaced all of the group's leaders. The new regime, dedicated to hard-line political action, is headed by Harlon Carter, a former Border Patrol official. The N.R. A. is currently conducting a membership drive, in hopes of swelling its ranks to 2 million by the time of the annual meeting next month...
...crystallized in a single, indelible video-tape image replayed again and again on countless TV sets throughout Spain: Guardia Civil Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina standing in the Cortes last Feb. 23, holding the Spanish government, and the nation, at gunpoint. Tejero and his fellow military conspirators in the coup attempt were soon arrested, and Spain's young democracy survived its gravest challenge...
...many Spaniards are beginning to wonder just who won that fateful encounter. Far from being totally discredited after the coup, the country's ultra-conservative armed forces-unchanged and unbending since Francisco Franco's day-seem hardly affected. "Zero percent of the people here believe that the putsch failed," says a moderate politician in Madrid. "Some think it is still going on, and many believe it actually succeeded...
...been summoned by Mountbatten, who introduced the idea of countering the Wilson government and quizzed King about how it could be done. Said King: "I told him the time might come when he had a role to play." King last week denied, however, that a coup was ever discussed...
King was a man filled with folie de grandeur, saying 'I can fix it.' I said, 'This is rank treason. Out.' " As it happened, King himself soon became the victim of a coup of sorts. Two days after the Mountbatten meeting, he personally penned a vitriolic anti-Wilson editorial in the Daily Mirror, an I.P.C. paper. The company's board of directors was so incensed that King was fired and Cudlipp installed as chairman...