Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...France is trying to give the embargo the coup de grâce. France, which is Western Europe's leading grain producer, although it is not a major world exporter, has just completed a bumper harvest. The French this year will have 3 million to 4 million tons of wheat available for export. As a member of the European Community, France is bound by a pledge made last winter that it would not take advantage of the American embargo by boosting its own grain exports to the Soviet Union. But now the French government wants the Community to shelve...
DIED. Marcello Caetano, 74, Prime Minister of Portugal for six years before being ousted by a military coup in 1974; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. Appointed Prime Minister in 1968, when longtime Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar was incapacitated by a stroke, Caetano made some abortive moves toward liberalization and tried vainly to preserve Portugal's eroding colonial empire by continuing costly wars hi Mozambique and Angola before his dismissal by the junta of General Antonio de Spinola...
...year earned a record $47.7 million on revenues of $1.8 billion-the A.C.T.W.U. also launched a corporate harassment campaign that turned out to be very potent. Devised by Raymond Rogers, 36, a former VISTA worker, the strategy aimed at isolating Stevens from the business community. Rogers scored his first coup in 1978; that was when the Manufacturers Hanover bank dropped two of its directors who were also Stevens directors, following a threat by many unions to withdraw more than $1 billion in pension and other funds they had on deposit at the institution. Six months later the New York Life...
Indeed, regular justice of any kind hardly existed in Chile. Throughout this year, the Chilean Armed Forces ignored its own military code of justice. It murdered 20,000 Chilean citizens during and after the coup, and interned 35,000 citizens in camps or prisons, a terror which orphaned at least 30,00 children...
...Chilean military would simply have been too much for most of the Chilean military to tolerate. The spectacle of three high-ranking Chilean military officers on trial in the United States for murder would have generated tremendous pressure within the Chilean Armed Forces to stage a counter-coup against Gen. Pinochet, Gen. Contreras' patron, and begin a transition to democracy...