Word: coupes
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When he returned to Libya, Gaddafi began to organize his fellow officers into secret cells to plan a way to overthrow the regime of the aged King Idris, whom he regarded as a corrupt and effete tool of Western oil companies. In 1969 Gaddafi led an efficient, bloodless coup, an effortless overthrow that seemed to have the tacit support...
Questions also were raised by reports of street fighting in Tripoli near Khadafy's headquarters. White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes said he had no information about whether a coup was attempted, and Libyan officials in Tripoli insisted that the firings were aimed at a U.S. reconnaissance plane...
When the military overthrew the 16-year regime of President Gaafar Nimeiri in a bloodless coup last year, Lieut. General Abdul Rahman Suwar al Dahab, the Defense Minister who spearheaded the rebellion, moved into the colonial-style Presidential Palace on the banks of the Blue Nile in Khartoum. Grateful citizens slaughtered a cow in a traditional housewarming gesture to welcome the new leader, but Suwar al Dahab told them his stay would be short. Within a year, he promised, he would hold free elections and turn power over to a civilian government. Last week, Suwar al Dahab showed that...
...neither side has shown much interest in a negotiated settlement. That stirs uneasy memories of the 17-year civil war, in which 500,000 people were killed, and the failure of the last democratically elected civilian government to resolve the conflict. The result: the 1969 military coup that brought Nimeiri to power...
...important political theorist," Putnamsaid, adding that it was a "coup" to lure Thompsonaway from Princeton, which tried very hard to keephim...