Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poor Strauss wheezed in for a disappointing third place finish, while the squad's newest star, Ellen Gallagher, clinched fourth place to complete a Crimson coup...
...innings of thrust and parry in Kansas City last night, but in the end, the Royals delivered the Philadelphia Phillies the coup de grace to take the third game of the World Series...
...Abdul Karim Kassem, a general who had seized power the year before, Saddam fled to Syria and Egypt. In Cairo he studied law and joined the Baath Party, a revolutionary group of Arab nationalists. He returned to Iraq in 1963, and by the time the Baathists staged their 1968 coup under General Bakr, Saddam had become second in command. He set up his own secret police organization, suppressed all challengers, and soon became the real power in the country...
...desperate straits. The economy is virtually crippled, with an unemployment rate of at least 20% and an inflation of around 120%. For the past three years, the country has been terrorized by an underground army of gunmen from the right and left; in the period immediately before the coup, the terrorists had been killing an average of 30 people a day. Parliament had been deadlocked for more than five months in its efforts to elect a new President and bring an end to the stalemate...
...members of parliament were being held in "protective custody." Late last week the military chose one of its own to be the new Prime Minister. He is Bülent Ulusu, 57, a former admiral and retired chief of the Turkish navy. Ulusu, who was not involved in the coup, was chosen over two other contenders, Gen. Haydar Saltik, a member of the ruling council, and Zayyat Baykara, a former senator...