Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Francois Mitterrand to send French troops to the landlocked African country. Libya and France signed an agreement in 1984 to withdraw each nation's forces. France did so, but Gaddafi promptly embarrassed Mitterrand by reneging. Libya fought a minor border war with Egypt in 1977 and supplied materiel to coup leaders in Burkina Faso in 1983. Gaddafi is suspected of having mined the Red Sea in 1984 (18 ships were damaged), and continues to use Libyan diplomatic pouches to export weapons. Says the State Department's Oakley: "Terrorism is one of the primary instruments of Gaddafi's foreign policy...
...Chad, and covert action involving other North African governments. McFarlane dispatched Poindexter, then his deputy, to confer with Egypt and other allies in the Middle East and Europe. "We even approached Israel," the intelligence official notes. But the response was discouraging; intelligence reports showed little chance of fomenting a coup within Libya, and none of the ideas jelled. "We learned the hard way," says the CIA man, "that if we want to settle the account with Gaddafi we will have to do it ourselves...
Thinking he is delivering the coup de grace, the Evil One pronounces his verdict. "Brent, this needs a hagggahlot of work, and mucho revision. I mean, your imagery is so...so...generic...
...admitted to the U.S. for medical treatment but was not permitted by the Carter Administration to remain. As it turned out, Marcos was less worried about the fate of the Shah than about what happened to Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnamese President who was assassinated during a 1963 coup. Says one senior American official: "He wanted to make sure he did not leave with a bullet...
...later TWA Chairman Carl Icahn said the carrier would buy St. Louis-based Ozark Air Lines for $225 million. That union would increase TWA's annual traffic by 30%, to some 27 million passengers, and strengthen its position as the fourth- largest U.S. airline. The merger would be a coup for Icahn, a New York financier who gained control of TWA only seven months ago. Though a TWA-Ozark deal was already in the works, he rushed to complete the negotiations after the Eastern deal was announced. Icahn realized that in the increasingly competitive skies, only the big and strong...