Word: coups
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Ever since President Richard Nixon fired him as Interior Secretary in 1970, Walter Hickel has coveted the Alaska governorship he gave up to go to Washington. He has tried everything short of a coup d'etat to reclaim it -- Republican primaries, write-in campaigns, even lawsuits. Last week, at 71, Hickel found yet another way to pursue his goal: he became the candidate of the Alaskan Independence Party, a fringe group that wants the state to secede from the U.S. Hickel named as his running mate state senator Jack Coghill, 65, who defected from the No. 2 spot...
...comic relief, the most fun you can have with a political book. A columnist for the Baltimore Sun, Simon zigged where other reporters zagged, going to places and shadowing sources others ignored. He has an obvious feel for people and a way of making them talk. Simon's biggest coup is a chat with a former Hart paramour, described as a moderately attractive, 47-year-old divorcee. A patient, ardent suitor, Hart planned intimate dinners and romantic field trips to such venues as the Lincoln Memorial. In romance as well as politics, Hart seems like an escapee from Twin Peaks...
Late last year the Justice Department reviewed how the Executive Order might apply to U.S.-supported coups. Its conclusions are secret. But former CIA counsel Bruemmer has publicly voiced an opinion that the order "does not prohibit U.S. officials from encouraging and supporting a coup, even where there is a likelihood of violence and a high probability that there will be casualties among opponents of the coup." So long as the U.S. does not approve specific plans for the killing of individuals, he says, the "prohibition against assassination has not been violated...
...wonder that wild rumors fly among Soviet citizens. What is perhaps surprising -- and the surest indicator of growing gloom -- is that the rumors have centered on a coup by the traditionally docile military, and that these rumors tend to grow with every strong denial...
Harvard Watch and COUP members said they considered the presidential search process at Harvard far more closed to students than those at other comparable universities...