Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standing with the military. Many officers who believe that her government has been too soft on the rebels have been itching for an all-out brawl with the insurgents. Few doubt that dissidents in the military still present the gravest threat to Aquino's political survival, despite several failed coup attempts in the past year. "What you have seen so far was nothing more than a warm-up of the jayvees," warns a disgruntled colonel. "You haven't seen the first team in action. They want a government that is prepared to lead them in a full-scale...
...course anyone who has sat through a few of the 14 1/2 hours of the demented fantasy knows that it doesn't do any of those things. Amerika's promoters bill the show as a depiction of American life in 1997, 10 years after a bloodless Soviet coup. Yet on the tube, the show is more of an intimate look at the personal lives of Milford, Nebraska's hard-driven, over-sexed residents. In one of its most subtle political commentaries so far, the show depicts--from a variety of salacious angles--the hips of Robert "Spenser: for Hire" Urich...
...house by 15 minutes. It also sent a couple of members out for milk and cookies and held study breaks in the libraries during reading the exam periods. The tailgate party and the milk and cookie breaks fine ideas, in the vaunted tradition of the chocolate milk coup...
Only former President Ferdinand Marcos, who was prevented by the U.S. two weeks ago from returning to the Philippines from Hawaii during the aborted coup, refused to concede the plebiscite's finality. Aquino won the election, he charged, through "massive vote buying, cheating and tampering of returns...
...than 50% of air force voters turned thumbs down on the document. Aquino, for her part, sought to downplay the military's lack of enthusiasm, contending that a 60% show of support still amounted to a landslide. Perhaps. But disaffected military officers have been implicated in both of the coup attempts staged against Aquino in July and November. The vote clearly indicated that a sizable block within the armed . forces continues to oppose her. Admitted Deputy Defense Minister Wilson Gamboa: "This reveals that the military continues to be disappointed with the government...