Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...produced TIME's "Date Rape" cover story, and the drug case starring fallen Panama strongman Manuel Noriega. She is thinking of more than climate when she boasts, "Miami is the hottest assignment around." Outside the courtrooms, Booth reported a cover story on Orlando and finagled 1992's great correspondent coup, a Business lead story on the booming cruise industry. Naturally, duty required Cathy to sample a Bahamas cruise. The bureau also covers the Caribbean, and she has reported from troubled Haiti and Castro's crumbling Cuba...
Officially, Nicholas resigned, citing unspecified "differences" with management and the board of directors. In fact, he was ousted in a coup conducted, he angrily told friends, in banana-republic fashion. Exactly who played what role in fomenting it was uncertain. But from Wall Street to Hollywood to Tokyo, theories abounded...
...Coup in the Boardroom...
Because it has received assurances from the Cedras junta that it would never do such nasty things, however, the administration has effectively called these people liars. In their defense, Amnesty International reports that more than 1500 people have died since the coup in September. Still, all these folks could be lying. And Cedras could be telling the truth. And Lyndon Larouche could be the next president...
...that U.S. business leaders had pressured the administration to relax the sanctions. Most poor Haitians say they will suffer anything to get back their beloved leader, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The New York Times captured the junta's response to the Bush move in a simple headline: "Leaders of Coup Gleeful After U.S. Loosens Its Embargo...