Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wise leader. We are all behind him," says Halima Khalid, 39, a Syrian homemaker picnicking with her family in Quneitra, a Golan town regained from Israel after Syria's 1973 surprise attack. He will have done it all, after surviving three wars with Israel, a fierce Islamic uprising, a coup attempt by his own brother Rifaat and the demise of Syria's only important ally, the Soviet Union. Comments Damascus law professor Mohammed Aziz Shukri: "This man built his glory not on his military career but by maintaining stability...
...budget "lifestyle documentaries" that allow viewers to peer into the lives of real people as they experience key rites of passage. Last month's premiere of A Dating Story (you guessed it, real blind dates) grabbed the No. 1 cable ranking in its time slot among younger women--a coup all the more remarkable because TLC has so far done no advertising for daytime, relying entirely on word of mouth...
Empires historically have crumbled when they overreach, and superterrorist Osama bin Laden?s adventures in China may yet prove to be his undoing. The survival prospects for the international financier-revolutionary dimmed last week following the coup in Pakistan and a U.N. Security Council resolution threatening sanctions against his hosts ?- Afghanistan?s Taliban movement ?- if they fail to extradite Bin Laden for trial in the U.S. Beijing and Moscow were more than happy to support Washington in passing the Bin Laden resolution, because the fugitive Saudi is alleged to have actively supported Islamic separatists in Chechnya and in western China...
International controversy erupted after Chavunduka, editor of the weekly Zimbabwe Standard, and Ray Choto, a reporter for the paper, were illegally arrested and tortured by members of the military for refusing to divulge their sources for a December 1998 story on an attempted coup d'etat by the Zimbabwe National Army...
...general's problem is that his coup, which was provoked by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's decision to fire him, is unconstitutional, and restoring civilian government would put the generals at risk of prosecution. His failure to produce a credible civilian administration leaves Washington and its allies facing an uncomfortable choice: Does the West opt to isolate and pressurize an unpredictable military junta in a newly nuclear power that exists in a perpetual state of low-key hostilities with its nearest neighbor; or does it work with General Musharraf in the hope that he can be coaxed back onto...