Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paul, who has been indicted on federal drug trafficking charges in Miami, had been considered the most powerful figure in Haiti after Namphy. It was not known if Paul played a role in the coup, but sources said Namphy and Paul were at odds...
...Washington, State Department spokeswoman Anita Stockman said noncommissioned officers of the Presidential Guard captured Namphy in an apparently bloodless coup and persuaded Avril to take over...
...most important show staged by Wright since he became artistic director, and the newest addition to the Guthrie's repertory, is a four-hour, 41-actor production of Hamlet. In it, Wright depicts a crumbling monarchy in which no one is competent to rule, so that Fortinbras' climactic coup d'etat is no tragedy but a blessed relief. Wright invigoratingly moves the action from space to starkly different space within the castle, mostly by use of lighting and a movable back wall that is by turns opaque, reflective or transparent. The first act begins with an elaborate dinner party glimpsed...
Only last year South Korea was under the iron fist of President Chun Doo Hwan, a former army general who had seized power in a 1980 coup. The press was muzzled, the National Assembly a rubber stamp, and the political opposition rendered impotent by persistent, often brutal suppression. Human rights were routinely abused...
With Bush creating sideshows and Dukakis muting issues, neither gains consistent support. -- Three battleground states -- Texas, Illinois and California -- hold 100 potentially decisive electoral votes. -- Despite rhetoric, the candidates fail to see inadequate schools as a national- security threat. -- The U. S. backs a cashiered Panamanian colonel seeking a coup against Noriega...