Word: coupes
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King Hussein's survival in power for 47 years was the stuff of legend. He foiled scores of coup plots and assassination attempts, prevailed in a civil war and nurtured his impoverished fledgling country into a key regional player despite being surrounded by hostile neighbors. In the end, cancer was the only thing his legendary courage, charisma and political skill were unable to overcome...
Sierra Leone's descent into chaos began on May 25, 1997, when a group of rebel soldiers from the Sierra Leone Army staged a coup d'etat, replaced democratically elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma, and soon allied themselves with R.U.F., the rebel movement that had waged a civil war earlier in the 1990s. Koroma was quickly isolated by some of Sierra Leone's West African neighbors, such as Nigeria and Guinea, which wanted to see Kabbah restored. Last February an ECOMOG military force pushed the junta from power, driving the rebels out of the capital...
...wasn't intended just to punish Saddam Hussein for blowing off U.N. weapons inspectors. By sorting through thousands of pieces of publicly available data--from Middle East newspapers to Iraqi-dissident news--Stratfor analysts developed a theory that the attacks were actually designed to mask a failed U.S.-backed coup. In two striking, contrarian intelligence briefs released on the Internet on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, Stratfor argued that Saddam's lightning restructuring of the Iraqi military, followed by executions of the army's Third Corps commanders, was evidence that the coup had been suppressed. Predictably, U.S. officials said...
...then, of course, Mathis administered the coup de grace. Some people, he wrote, have already suggested that by accepting the consequences of his actions, the principal "has actually set a better example for our children than a certain scandal-plagued President...
FEBRUARY 2004 In a coup that will result in its first Pulitzer Prize, the National Enquirer breaks the story that Monica has undergone plastic surgery by the same doctor who successfully transformed New York City socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein into a cross between a human and a panther. The surgeon refuses to divulge what the new Monica looks like, other than to say that "she's a darn sight less scary-looking than Jocelyn...