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Iran's interest in Sudan began after a fundamentalist-backed coup brought General Omar Hassan Bashir to power in 1989. Bashir immediately declared Sudan an Islamic state. Iran's President paid a call at the end of 1991, accompanied by his Defense and Intelligence ministers and the commander of the Revolutionary Guard. Reportedly, Iran agreed to provide Sudan with oil and technical aid in exchange for Sudanese livestock and wheat and promised to send Iranian Revolutionary Guards to train Sudanese Popular Defense Forces. U.S. officials say the Guards also offered instruction in subversion and guerrilla warfare for would-be terrorists...
Over and over, since Nigeria gained independence 33 years ago, the government has gyrated between short-lived civilian control and military regimes. From the day President Ibrahim Babangida, an army major general, seized power in a coup eight years ago, he promised an orderly return to democratic rule. He created two political parties and wrote their platforms: the Social Democratic Party tilted a bit to the left, the National Republican Convention leaned the same degree to the right. He handpicked their presidential candidates. But when Moshood Abiola, the millionaire industrialist candidate of the Social Democrats, won the election and insisted...
...Selig, who helped negotiate the plan, is the owner of the Milwaukee Brewers. He also is the de facto commissioner of baseball, named so by the owners after their coup of Vincent...
Veritas permeates Harvard. It is emblazoned on the chairs, the walls, the gates, even imprinted on the first years' underwear. But for nearly 90 days I have asked for the unexpurgated, non-rhetorical truth in this coup d'etat and have received little more than the stains on the underwear. My eyes are open. With every pore of my being I am visual. My voice may be diminished by the resounding bang of authority, but I call now upon the administration of this great university and upon every person who is committed to the advancement of education in the arts...
...Attorney General William Barr issued a report sharply criticizing Sessions for abusing the privileges of his job by, among other things, using limousines and government flights for personal business. Sessions made himself look all the worse by publicly accusing his deputy, respected career officer Floyd Clarke, of plotting a coup. Sessions' wife Alice joined the fray. Last month she told a San Antonio newspaper that Clarke was among "10 to 12 people who are bent on" driving her husband from...