Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Haiti if the military rulers don't "step down" by the end of the year. "We don't expect the military regime to be there six months from now," U.S. Haiti adviser Bill Gray said. At one point in an interview with ABC News, Gray upped the ante: "The coup leaders will not be allowed to stay in power." In the meantime, the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince bought radio air time on local stations to broadcast messages in local Creole warning fleeing Haitians: "If you take a new boat, one thing is certain...
Those were heady accomplishments for someone in his early 20s, but Kirstein's greatest coup lay a few years ahead, in 1933, when he persuaded choreographer George Balanchine to come to America. The brilliant Russian emigre and the well-heeled native son built up what became the New York City Ballet, in its prime the most influential dance company on earth...
...putting out two albums on a tiny Berkeley record label (Lookout!), but now, on their major-label debut (Warner Bros./Reprise), their raw three-chord rock is finding a wider audience (Dookie has sold 600,000 copies). This summer Green Day is set to pull off a cross- generational coup -- the group will not only tour with the hip annual Lollapalooza music festival, it will also play the nostalgia-laden 25th anniversary of Woodstock. So rock's torch is passed on. Look for Green Day to light some fires...
...bosses: a freeze on financial transactions between the U.S. and Haiti and a ban on airline flights beginning June 25. These steps are in addition to an ever tightening trade embargo on all imports but food and medicine. These pressures, Clinton said, are aimed at a "solution where the coup leaders step down...
Gray, a Democrat, is assigned the task ofdevising plan to restore Aristide to power.Aristide, who was democratically elected, iscurrently living in exile in Washington, D.C.after being forced out of the country by a Haitianmilitary coup two years...