Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Editor Julia Richer, phoning from New York City. "My day got worse from then on," says Moyer. For the next 24 hours he and Richer coordinated the successful effort to give TIME readers the most up-to-date pictures to illustrate this week's WORLD story on the attempted coup against the government of Philippine President Corazon Aquino...
...prologue. A community of black-suited, ringleted and bearded Hasidim is peaceably gathered on a set that includes a large menorah and Torah scrolls and, on the sides, a Jewish cemetery. Suddenly, khaki-suited, helmeted storm troopers rush in and desecrate the scene. The swift brutality was a provocative coup de theatre -- especially in Austria, where memories of the 1938 Nazi invasion are still fresh and where former Wehrmacht Officer Kurt Waldheim now presides...
...Persian Gulf, the relationship between Sunni rulers and Shi'ite subjects remains volatile. After all, in the eyes of the Shi'ites, any regime not under the rule of the Prophet's true heirs is an abomination. Indeed, Bahrain, which is more than 70% Shi'ite, defused a 1981 coup attempt allegedly inspired by Tehran. Kuwait, which is 24% Shi'ite, has been victimized by a wave of bombings believed to be the work of pro-Iranian terrorists...
...daughter of the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, once the Prime Minister of Pakistan. While still in her 20s, she rallied the supporters of her Western-educated father after he was overthrown in a 1977 military coup and hanged two years later. She became the official opposition leader in 1986 and a strong challenger to her father's nemesis, President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. Last week the articulate Benazir Bhutto, 34, a graduate of Harvard and Oxford, astonished friends and foes alike by announcing that she had agreed to an arranged marriage to a wealthy Pakistani businessman whom...
...remaining independent publishing houses, as an editor. "Roger Straus and I hope to work out an arrangement such as the one described," Shawn says. "I have agreed to edit three or four books on an informal, friendly basis." Does Straus believe he has pulled off a publishing coup? "You bet I do," he says, adding that he would like Shawn to stay on "as long as he is happy. May it be a thousand years...