Word: coupes
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DIED. J. PETER GRACE, 81, longest-reigning (a half-century) head of a major U.S. company; of lung cancer; in New York City. Grace's death came within weeks of the corporate coup that replaced him as chairman of the giant chemicals company W.R. Grace & Co. As head of a federal economics commission during the Reagan presidency, Grace was a highly visible cheerleader for government efficiency and deficit reduction. But it was his predilection for spending millions of his company's dollars on personal perks that led to his ouster...
...Missing," Lemmon plays ED Horman, a conservative American businessman whose son, residing in Chile, disappears a few days after the 1973 military coup that brought General Pinochet to power. Horman travels to Chile and, along with his daughter-in-law, Beth (Sissy Spacek), tries to find out what happened...
...presidency, South Vietnamese politicians and their American and French advisers intrigued furiously to arrange another transfer of power. Air Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, a former head of government and advocate of dead-end resistance, alternately got the impression from American visitors that he was being urged to stage a coup and fight to the last, or that the U.S. wanted him to smooth the way for Big Minh to take over. Ky remembers telling an American general that if Minh did take power, South Vietnam would surrender unconditionally within 24 hours. Close. It took 42 hours...
That they did. The shock of the explosions, which could be felt in downtown Saigon, touched off wild rumors: Air Marshal Ky's planes were bombing the capital as part of a coup; the NVA was launching its final assault. Actually, that did not happen for more than 24 hours. But the capital obviously was no longer safe. Time for the last Americans, and the Vietnamese who had tied their fate to the U.S., to get out--quick...
...C.I.A. began to plot a coup against the Guatemalan government. It waged a propaganda campaign that slandered the government as communist, then helped military leaders seize power. The country has been a killing field ruled by the military ever since...