Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beys said that the Spin Doctors pulled a last-minute coup by raising their price from $1000 to $1200, threatening to cancel the concert if Beys did not pay them...
...council bravely demanded a single meeting with a few search committee members late in the search process. In fact, the UC fought until it scored a real coup: about an hour with part of the committee (which did not include its top members) in a meeting closed to all other undergraduates and the press...
...house rescue program for a select few," says Arthur Helton, director of the refugee program run by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in New York City. It also remains uncertain how an embassy operating with only a skeleton crew -- most staff members have been withdrawn since the coup -- will process all of the claims...
...that poses no threat to international peace and security would be all but impossible to justify; last week the State Department quickly denied that any military option was being considered at present. The likeliest option was a three-pronged approach: tighten up refugee controls; target individuals connected with the coup by freezing their American bank accounts; and ease the toll on Haitians by loosening the embargo on plants that assemble goods for U.S. companies, restoring as many as 40,000 jobs...
...question now is how many of the boat people at Guantanamo will be returned to Haiti -- and how fast. Since Jan. 19, the Coast Guard has hauled 6,235 boat people to safety, bringing the total number of post-coup Haitian refugees to 14,610. Of those, almost one-quarter have been found by officers of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to have a "plausible claim" for asylum, which means they will be permitted to enter the U.S. and present further evidence. Among the most recent boat people, almost three-quarters made...