Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Point Salines airfield was the focus of the Oct. 25, 1983, invasion of Grenada (pop. 90,000), which involved 6,000 American troops and left 19 Americans dead. President Reagan's "rescue mission" followed a bloody coup in which Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was killed and extremists seized power. For more than a year afterward, the U.S. maintained a 245- member peacekeeping force on the island. Now the only remaining soldiers are two legal experts, a financial officer and some 25 U.S. Special Forces instructors who will remain until September, training the Grenadian police special service unit in counterinsurgency...
...taste of the world's best-selling soft drink has become a universal conversation topic, like the weather or money or love. Everyone has an opinion: some like the new Coke, some hate it, others do not care at all. Some believe Coca-Cola's strategists made the marketing coup of the decade, others call it a monumental blunder...
Allende presents the coup from different angles, the most affecting of which is that of Esteban Trueba, the landed patriarch and protagonist Trueba's lifetime spans the years between the turn of the century and the coup's bloody aftermath. First a penniless gold miner, then a landowner struggling for prosperity, he finally becomes a wealthy leader of the nation's conservative political factions...
...book's final pages, in her decision of the coup and the dislocation which followed it, that Allende steps out of the shadow of Marques and other South American novelists. As she describes the unification of the Trueba family, split by political differences but unified by their faith in democracy and their abhorrence of torture, her writing glows with is real eloquence...
Allende retains her mellifluous style even when writing about the torture and repression which accompanied South America's bloodiest coup. In one beautiful passage she describes the through of Alba Trueba, Esteban's leftist granddaughter. By day Alba...