Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Ambassador Barro's portrayal of the Chilean Supreme Court as an independent institution is implausible. The most important of these, is the Chilean judiciary's status under the current regime. A brief review of the Chilean judiciary's history from September 11, 1973, the date of the military coup against the Unidad Popular government, to the formal U.S. request for extradition in September 1978, plainly shows that during these five years the Chilean judiciary led only the most fugitive kind of institutional existence...
...military coup initiated the judiciary's political nullification. Between September 1973 and September 1974, Chile was unconstitutionally under a "state of siege", which the junta's Decree Law No. 5 defined as a "state of war". This definition created a system of military justice in which defendants were routinely sentenced to imprisonment or death without any appeal whatsoever, often on the basis of "evidence" extracted under the most excruciating torture. Military officers with very little or no legal training conducted these trials. Throughout that year, the Chilean Supreme Court refused to supervise the system of military justice...
Last week Reagan scored what initially seemed to be a notable coup: he got the backing of the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr.'s onetime righthand man, and the endorsement of the Rev. Hosea Williams, another black civil rights activist of the '60s. But neither Abernathy nor Williams is regarded today as a major leader by blacks. Scoffed Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, a black: "When the Ku Klux Klan, Abernathy and Williams agree on the same candidate for President, that wins first prize for weird coalition of the year...
...that the Khomeini regime would crumble under the first attacks. Now he needs to turn the stalemate into a clear-cut victory, or at least to extricate himself with some face-saving diplomatic fallback. Otherwise, Iraq's strongman runs the risk of falling victim to the same kind of coup that he engineered against a number of his former comrades and superiors in the on-again, off-again bloodbath of Iraqi politics...
...others--began adopting the techniques of the novel in the features they wrote for the Herald Tribune's Sunday supplement, or Esquire or anywhere. Symbolism, multiple perspectives, even self-indulgence: it was all there. What's more, it was all true. Actual Journalism. These journalists staged a shocking coup d'etat against their respected big brothers, the novelists. Soon the oldsters wanted to play...