Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard-driving entrepreneur is now in retreat. Last week, in a coup engineered by angry franchisees, Millard was forced to step down as ComputerLand's chief executive officer. He and his daughter Barbara, 27 whom Millard installed as president last November, relinquished all day-to-day operating control of the Oakland-based company...
Reagan Administration officials last week confirmed another coup: Sergei Bokhan, deputy director of Soviet military intelligence in Athens, had ^ defected in May. Bokhan has provided information about the extent of Soviet infiltration of the Greek military, which may explain why the U.S. postponed a sale of 40 F-16 fighter jets to that country...
...rumors of a post-coup Cabinet shake-up persisted, the Prime Minister began the difficult task of settling accounts. Security forces rounded up four retired generals, including Kriangsak and Serm Na Nakorn, former Armed Forces Supreme Commander, along with 15 other officers and seven labor leaders. They also reportedly put out a warrant for the arrest of a tank commander said to be responsible for the deaths of NBC Cameraman Neil Davis and his sound technician William Latch during the coup. Another seven soldiers and cashiered Colonel Manoon Roopkachorn, who is believed to have masterminded the aborted rebellion, are still...
South Africa reconsiders citizenship and pass laws. A KGB official defects, and Britain expels 25 Soviets. A Thai coup foiled...
...interstellar coup: ice, a modest, almost archaic U. S. spacecraft, becomes the first man- made object to encounter a comet...