Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well-attended rally this past Tuesday on the steps of Memorial Church. Mather House students created a creed of tolerance, circulating a petition beseeching House residents: can't we all just get along? Mostly, though, the disinterested student response is the same as our reaction to any current event. Coup in Pakistan, too bad. Democratic primary debate, that's nice. Attack on my downstairs' neighbor, what a shame...
...until the Prime Minister made the grave error of encroaching on the military's autonomy. Will the military deliver "true" democracy to Pakistan, as Musharraf has pledged? In the past fifty years, Pakistan's fragile democratic base has eroded as a result of repeated military interventions. With the October coup, Pakistan is back to square one and time is fast running out. Should the present junta decide to retain power indefinitely, depriving 130 million Pakistanis of democratic avenues for bargaining, participation and dissent, political instability and internal divisions will threaten the very fabric of a state where history...
...Senate's action seemed almost cavalier. Debate over the treaty was short and, at times, crassly partisan. (Even G.O.P. arms-control expert Brent Scowcroft called it "pathetic.") And the vote came just a day after relations between India and Pakistan were further soured by the Islamabad coup...
...Military coups used to be messy affairs, rife with panic and barricades and bloodshed. After the overthrow of the democratically elected government in Pakistan last week, there was cheering. In the span of 48 hours, army chief General Pervez Musharraf detained Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, sacked the Cabinet, suspended Parliament and the constitution, and imposed virtual martial law. Yet most Pakistanis barely shrugged. Shops remained open. Telephone service was restored. Children went to school. In Sharif's hometown of Lahore, people danced in the streets and distributed candies to celebrate the coup. "We don't want democracy," said Mohammed Tariq...
...Well, I guess he was different at first, but later on they realized what he did, how it was good..." A girl named Ellen picks up: "Once people prove they can win, they're all glorified." "Close," prods Mendelson. Another girl administers the coup de grace: "Muhammad Ali, the farther he got into Parkinson's--now he's harmless, and so they're not afraid of him anymore. He's like a Hester now that she's a good girl." Mendelson, triumphant: "Once an enemy of society has been defeated, we can embrace them and call her cute little Hester...