Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most. Nowhere is the disparity in wealth more apparent than in the San Francisco neighborhood of the capital, where huge houses sit behind electrified barbed-wire fences. These are the homes of the wealthy landowners and businessmen who pulled most of the strings of power before the military coup of 1979. They shop at U.S.-style malls on the Boulevard de Los Heroes, favor the Mercedes-Benz SL and try to overlook the rat's nest of tin and cardboard huts that besmirches their view of a nearby hillside...
...capital, officials insisted he remained cloistered in the palace. However, two Cabinet ministers were arrested, and some of the President's closest associates, including his powerful niece Saida Sassi and his son Habib Bourguiba Jr., were said to be under house arrest. No violence or resistance to the coup was reported...
...Manila alone, some 50 killings have been attributed to the sparrows this year. The N.P.A. had threatened to target American personnel after the U.S. announcement of increased military aid to Manila following the August coup attempt. Indeed, the guerrillas boasted that they would kill one American for each of the ten armored personnel carriers that the Reagan Administration delivered to the Aquino government last week. U.S. military officials ordered service members and their families at both Clark and the Subic Bay naval base to restrict travel outside the camps to essential trips and to avoid using side roads...
...coup was announced over national radio following an outbreak of gunfire near the presidential palace in Ouagadougou, the capital. Government officials said Sankara was shot to death and hastily buried, along with a dozen others killed in the coup, in a mass grave on the capital's outskirts. Members of the murdered President's family watched the burial in tears. A populist who religiously consulted with village leaders before embarking on new policies, Sankara made personal probity a point of honor in a country that has had more than one corrupt leader since winning independence in 1960. He boasted that...
...leader evidently shaped his regime into more of a one-man show than his fellow coup leaders found tolerable. Following Sankara's execution, Radio Ouagadougou accused him of having built up a "concentration of power" and of harboring the "ambitions of a madman." In seizing power last week, Compaore, 36, the Minister of State and Justice, used the same special commando unit he placed at Sankara's disposal in 1983. Western diplomats in Burkina Faso expect him to be a less flamboyant leader than Sankara but to continue most of his policies. Despite the death of their author, the national...