Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Walker spy case in the U.S. and the defection to East Germany last month of Hans Joachim Tiedge, a senior West German counterintelligence officer. The British, so often in the postwar years on the losing end in the spy business, were especially delighted. Said one British official: "This coup by our intelligence services wipes the slate clean of lapses in British security over the past decade." A top-ranking intelligence source told TIME that "this is much bigger, very much bigger, than Tiedge and the East German moles...
...center of the action. In 1975 he and his fellow officers ousted General Yakubu Gowon, who had taken power soon after the outbreak of the bloody four-year Biafran war. The following year, an unarmed Babangida confronted rebellious army officers in Lagos during an attempted coup and persuaded them to surrender. It was he too who masterminded the army coup that, on the last day of 1983, toppled Shehu Shagari, the civilian President whose winking acceptance of endemic corruption had helped plunge oil-rich Nigeria into a still continuing spiral of poverty. Last week Babangida was in the vanguard...
...gathered support for the takeover. Some Western diplomats believe that Babangida's ability to hold on to power depends on his success in turning around the Nigerian economy. Whatever his plans, he knows he must act quickly and | decisively. He has only to look at his own role as coup maker and coup breaker to know that in Nigeria unpopular or ineffective leaders do not last for long...
...Coup D'Etat...
...course it was a CCA cabal," City Councilor David E. Sullivan said about the political coup pulled off by his colleagues...