Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Malin was on his own, unemployed but determined to see through his charges against McLean. In a coup de grace, McLean filed a notice with the state Division of Employment Security, preventing Malin from collecting unemployment insurance. In such a situation, governmental action to secure immediate reinstatement is, by its nature, the most effective remedy to protect violation. Without such action, the victimized worker faces financial hardship in pursuing the case. Furthermore, the co-workers in these circumstances are naturally reluctant to speak out about their working conditions for fear they will lose their jobs. But according to Howard...
...Beretta skills in North Africa, France and Switzerland. In Paul Henissart's Margin of Error (Simon & Schuster; 334 pages; $10.95), the swaggering former Foreign Legionnaire is assigned to an operation called Grand Slam. Its aim is to assassinate Anwar Sadat and pave the way for a Soviet-managed coup in Cairo. The action takes Bruno, in the footsteps of Cain and Carlos, to Zurich, where the Egyptian President has secretly arranged to undergo surgery...
This new type of journalism has been coldly received by the Thai government. The country averages one coup every two years and with each new regime come new sanctions and restrictions on the media...
Since then the government has resorted to subtler methods. During the 1976 coup when police raided the capital's university, killing 50 to 60 students and arresting 3000 others, the regime imposed a total news blackout, closing all papers for three days. But, having no control over magazines like Time and Newsweek, which were published outside the country, they hired students and unemployed persons to tear the pages on Thailand out of thousands of periodicals before the publications were put on the newsstands...
...paper and others like it have not always been this lucky. After the 1976 coup, the Nation Review was closed down for more than a month, and its executive editor was arrested. Yoon was accused of being part of an anti-government conspiracy. Still such threats to individuals have not deterred the men in Yoon's circles. "In Thailand it is difficult to look at journalism as a detached career," he says. "Journalism in the Third World means you have a lot of involvement in what you write about. You are always advocating a cause...