Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world is E.H. ("Tex") Boullioun, 61, president of the Boeing subsidiary responsible for commercial sales and programs. Since he joined the company during World War II, he has signed up so many billions of dollars in deals with airlines that he no longer bothers to keep track. His latest coup: a $550 million contract three weeks ago for 727s, 737s and five 767s for Australia's Ansett Airlines...
...voted in a new, hard-line party leadership at a national council this month. Its first commitment: no further dealings that might lead to the so-called historic compromise of Communist entry into the government. With that, burly, ambitious Socialist Leader Bettino Craxi found himself compelled to deliver the coup de gráce. Reason: his own troublesome left wing strongly favors a Communist presence in the government...
...reforms have been staunchly backed by the Carter Administration, which two weeks ago acted to forestall a right-wing military coup against the junta. Part of a $50 million U.S. aid package has been earmarked to help get the program off the ground. Still, the reforms have been criticized both by the right, which called them "Communist-inspired," and by the left, which said they were merely "cosmetic." Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, an outspoken opponent of the regime, fears that the junta will use the reforms as an excuse to crack down even more ruthlessly on leftist sympathizers among...
...Ugandan army, which placed its first 5,700 troops on active duty last week, and is worried by reports that an armed faction loyal to former President Apolo Milton Obote -Nyerere's next-door neighbor in Dar es Salaam since he was ousted by Amin in a 1971 coup-was massing in the north. Thus Binaisa asked Kenya's President Daniel Arap Moi for troops to replace the departing Tanzanians. But Moi, whose country has been at odds with Tanzania since the breakdown of the East African Community in 1977, turned Binaisa down...
...Soviets' next target of opportunity. Their reasoning: the U.S. had been spared an alliance with a repressive, unpopular military dictator whose regime has only a modest chance of survival. Last week there were reports-vehemently denied by the Islamabad government-that some army officers had launched an attempted coup against Zia and failed...