Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rodgers and Clark finally do get a club date, their big break. Unfortunately, the nightclub is in North Africa. The dippy duo sets off for the desert and soon find themselves embroiled in a Communist coup and a CIA plot...
...again. Says an Argentine official: "If they could nominate officers and make decisions, they hoped to reassert what they see as a natural right. Then they'd say that such-and-such a minister was a Communist and had to go. Eventually, they may have been looking for a coup down the road." Alfonsin's task now is to keep tight control of a military establishment that has been battered by war and human rights violations. At the same time, he must continue to avoid its still potent wrath...
...exurbs whose historical and residential enchantments are mainstays of Updike's magic kit. An exception is The Ideal Village, about a party of gringo fact finders in the jungle settlement of a sect of Central American social visionaries. The story is to the others in the book what The Coup is to Updike's other novels, a public variation on the folly of private utopias. Concludes the narrator: "It was not until weeks afterwards, collating our diaries in the course of preparing our report to the government, that we discovered how happy each of us had been to leave...
...only that, but the heathens happened to have an APB out on me for an abortive coup I plotted a few months back. I could not keep too low a profile. To this end I painted the words "World Socialism Rules" on my gas tank and borrowed the diplomatic plates I found on a sedan at the East German border. Now all I had to worry about was not getting pulled over, since my driver's licence had been revoked for trying to run down the premier of Rumania...
...banks had originally demanded, saving about $1 billion. Ongpin had also won approval for a novel method of turning some of the remaining interest into badly needed foreign investment. Said Betty Starkey, an analyst at Multinational Strategies, a Manhattan-based economic-consulting firm: "The Philippines has pulled off a coup...