Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...composed only of the Democratic Front. Resentments were further aggravated when Cohen announced that Washington supported the Eritreans' right to self-determination. Mobs marched to the gates of the U.S. embassy, shouting anti-American slogans and hurling stones into the compound. Protesters dubbed the change of government "Cohen's coup...
...visit to Dallas was slackened. It was all part of a plot, he tells Garrison, to eliminate Kennedy and put Lyndon Johnson in office so that the Vietnam War could be escalated. "This was a military-style ambush from start to finish," Garrison tells his staff later, "a coup d'etat with Lyndon waiting in the wings...
Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73, who was the first woman to lead an Islamic state, spoke in 1989. She is the daughter of deposed Prime Minister Zulfikar Bhutto, who was overthrown in a military coup by Gen. Zia ul-Haq and later executed...
Moral issues aside, there is considerable doubt whether a continued embargo will speed Saddam's downfall. The Administration hopes that popular resentment of the hardships Iraqis face will help provoke a coup d'etat. That calculation may well prove flawed. Would-be plotters, whether in the military or in the government, are insulated from these travails because of their privileged access to anything in short supply. Besides, the resentment could be directed at the authors of the embargo instead of toward Saddam...
Those who are swept into power by military coup sometimes find themselves swept out the same way. Take Major General Justin Lekhanya of Lesotho, a former policeman who seized control of the small African country in 1986. Last week rebellious army officers marched him to a radio station in the capital of Maseru, forced him to read a resignation speech and then replaced him with Colonel Elias Ramaema...