Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost hour by hour, the swells of revolt kept growing. Nearly half the 60,000 inhabitants of Cap Haitien marched peacefully through the streets Wednesday afternoon, calling on the army to stage a coup d'etat and take power. There were also appeals for a general strike to begin Feb. 12. Such a sustained work stoppage would probably cripple the moribund Haitian economy, which gets much of its foreign currency from tourism...
...callous political schemer...you devious turncoat, that'll teach you to meddle in council politics." Standing amidst the remnants of my lunch and the smell of stale beer, I realized that in expressing my opinion on the divestment issue, I had unwittingly become an accomplice in a council coup d'etat...
While the sudden coup next door succeeded without any bloodshed, the unrest inside South Africa continued in fresh spasms of violence. Two white policemen were hacked and bludgeoned to death by a crowd of about 500 blacks when they tried to break up an unauthorized union meeting near Westonaria, a gold-mining complex 25 miles west of Johannesburg. Official reports said a shoot-out occurred between police reinforcements and blacks who grabbed the dead officers' weapons. Seven blacks were killed and at least 40 others wounded in the melee. The violence marked the first time that white police officers have...
Still another Ugandan government seemed on the verge of falling last week. Only six months after a coup had toppled the corrupt and bloody regime of President Apollo Milton Obote, an estimated 3,000 rebels from a group that calls itself the National Resistance Army moved into the capital, Kampala, and quickly captured a major portion of the city. Some government troops retreated to the suburbs, but others stayed behind, fighting back with heavy mortar barrages. In the exchange of gunfire, both a hospital and a church were hit. At least 20 people were reported killed or wounded...
Skirmishes between various military groups have been commonplace since the July coup. Uganda's new leader, Major General Tito Okello, had appealed to the rebels to lay down their guns and join his government. On Dec. 17 he met with Insurgent Leader Yoweri Museveni in neighboring Kenya and signed a peace accord that called for Museveni to become deputy chairman of a restructured military council. But the truce soon fell apart. In Uganda, generals may come and go, but the blood always seems to flow...