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DIED. GENERAL SANI ABACHA, 54, Nigerian dictator who wrested power in a 1993 coup and maintained his grip on Africa's most populous and oil-rich nation by canceling free elections and silencing critics through imprisonment or execution; from an apparent heart attack; in Abuja, Nigeria. Perhaps Abacha's most notorious act as President was hanging the playwright and environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight associates accused of treason...
...Habibie told the volatile general that promotions were up to the military, and left. Prabowo refused to go, departing only after his aide pretended Wiranto was on the phone. He came back the next day, this time with troops, and confronted Habibie, who again denied his request. Fearing a coup, security forces escorted Habibie to the adjoining palace and put him under heavy guard, while the army went on high alert. That night Wiranto stripped Prabowo of his command and reassigned him to head a military staff college...
...noted composers as Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber--on which her reputation now chiefly rests. Cave of the Heart (1946), one of her many modern recastings of ancient Greek myth, contains a horrific solo in which the hate-crazed Medea gobbles her own entrails--perhaps Graham's most sensational coup de theatre and one recalled with nightmarish clarity by all who saw her bring...
When I went on to Oxford, that was the time that I decided I wanted to join the diplomatic service, but when I went back to Pakistan, a coup took place within a week of my return, and that coup d'etat changed the course of my own destiny and took me into a field, that of politics, which I had never wanted to enter. Interestingly, everybody remembers that I am the first foreign women to become president of the Oxford Union, but nobody remembers that I'm the first female undergraduate of Harvard to become a chief executive...
...coup in Czechoslovakia puts the Communist Party into power in Prague...