Word: coups
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...unalterable figure is the amount of land -- 8,124 sq. mi. -- that makes El Salvador the most densely populated country in Central America. Disputes over property have often led to bloodshed. A military coup in 1979 was sparked in part by a plan to redistribute farmland, most of which is still owned by a tightly knit oligarchy. Since then, land reform has come to signify justice to those without property and communist conspiracy to those who stand to lose theirs...
Note the four times that "sic" is used in the following paragraph. Could this "four sic" really mean "forensic," an oblique reference to the Kennedy autopsy report which has been suppressed by the military-industrial-Lampoon-CIA-FBI-Cuban-Communist-AALARM-LBJ-Mafia-BCCI-Nixon-Rudenstine coup d'etat elite (a massive conspiracy organization which has seized control of our government and at this time consists of just about everyone except Oliver Stone, Jim Garrison, Kevin Costner and a few people in Dubuque...
...sure. "The situation is extraordinarily tense," said a city council member. "The old authorities -- the communists -- realize that this may be their last chance to regain power. We are hungrier than any other big Russian city." He and other officials who support Sobchak said they fear a possible local coup attempt against the reform-minded mayor, whom hard-liners have been trying to force out for weeks. The period of greatest vulnerability for such an act, say several city officials, will be between Jan. 10 and the end of February, when food shortages are likely to be severest...
...would actually lead such a coup does not seem clear in anybody's mind: just an inchoate, presumably reactionary and authoritarian group referred to ominously as "they." Explained a driver: "There will be bread riots, and that will lead to a coup. And when the coup takes place, that will lead to civil war." But the real specter is chaos. Many of St. Petersburg's citizens fear that social and political instability caused by shortages will bring bloodshed. "When you see their faces," said a member of the city council with a sigh, "they are very tense, but that...
...word has it that 80 Iraqi military officers were executed for attempting a coup. Another day the rumor is that 76 Iraqis and Egyptians were put to death for mounting an anti-Saddam demonstration south of Baghdad. Still another day brings the story that former Iraqi Prime Minister Saadoun Hammadi and 24 high-ranking army officers were shot for a coup attempt...