Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to go out, and I need help to get out." Within four hours a plan had been approved in Washington. Duvalier was told that he and his entourage should be ready to leave at 2 a.m. Friday. He agreed. Said one of those invited to the Duvaliers' risky coup de champagne in the palace: "They were both in high spirits. It was gay and filled with laughter. No tears." Meanwhile, France had agreed to give Duvalier's entourage temporary entry, while making it clear that permanent exile in the country was out of the question. When the couple finally...
That common touch has served Babangida well since last Aug. 27, when he came to power in a military coup. Babangida deposed the country's former military leader, Major General Mohammed Buhari, who himself had overthrown the government of President Shehu Shagari in a 1983 New Year's Eve coup. Buhari had alienated the country of some 95 million people with his repressive tactics, which included jailing political enemies and using military tribunals instead of civil courts to dispense justice. Babangida's bloodless, well- planned takeover was the fifth in Nigeria since it gained independence from Britain...
...advocate the abandonment of the democratic process is to advocate its only alternative: rule by might. Whether this may mean a coup or a revolution, it means a dark future for Philippine politics. Neither Corazon Aquino, the moderates, or the Philippine people will benefit...
...Nigeria (estimated foreign debt: $20 billion), where there have been two military coups in the past two years, the petrocrisis could not have come at a worse time. The second coup, in August, led to the accession as President of Major General Ibrahim B. Babangida, who in December announced a stiff austerity budget to begin rebuilding the devastated local economy. The latest oil-price collapse, however, has not helped the government in its planning, having made Nigeria's projections of $8.1 billion in oil revenues this year appear decidedly optimistic...
...sharp break with that country's brutal past. Thousands of Ugandans gathered outside the cream-colored Parliament building to watch as Rebel Leader Yoweri Museveni was sworn in as President just three days after his insurgents routed the forces of the military government that had seized power in a coup only six months earlier. A hush fell over the crowd as Museveni, dressed in the unadorned fatigues of an army private, took the oath of office from the Chief Justice of Uganda's Supreme Court. Then, his hand still resting on a Bible, he declared, "No one can think that...