Word: coupes
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...counting the votes, throwing Gore a lifeline, while the court's own chief justice warned that its ruling "propels this country and this state into an unprecedented and unnecessary constitutional crisis." Bush allies like Jack Kemp tried to discredit the court, charging that it had carried out a "judicial coup d'etat." But then the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the sanctity of the election procedures, questioning the legality of the recount and bailing out Bush while the liberal dissenters warned that "preventing a recount from being completed will inevitably cast a cloud on the legitimacy...
...military that Pinochet commanded from his coup of 1973 until eight years after he'd relinquished power is naturally deeply unhappy about the judicial pursuit of its erstwhile chief. And they've made their unhappiness known by pressuring President Ricardo Lagos into convening the National Security Council, a body created by Pinochet to deal with national crises, in which the military presence is dominant. Still, the council is constitutionally toothless, and Lagos has insisted that he'll hold the meeting only after the high court's ruling, so as to avoid interference in the judicial process. The sad truth...
...counting the votes, throwing Gore a lifeline, while the court's own Chief Justice warned that its ruling "propels this country and this state into an unprecedented and unnecessary constitutional crisis." Bush allies like Jack Kemp tried to discredit the court, charging that it had carried out a "judicial coup d'état." But then the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the sanctity of the election procedures, questioning the legality of the recount and bailing out Bush while the liberal dissenters warned that "preventing a recount from being completed will inevitably cast a cloud...
...coup for Jordanian intelligence operatives
...When Pinochet launched his 1973 coup, he did it with the active support and encouragement of the U.S. government, who saw the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende as a dire threat to its Cold War regional interests. The Clinton administration has forced the keepers of the nation's secrets to shine some light on the relationship between Washington and Pinochet, and what has emerged through four tranches of document declassification is an unflattering picture of U.S. collusion with a regime that systematically undermined the constitution of Latin America's oldest democracy, and brutalized its citizenry. And what...