Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they faced the formidable Noreiga-Mattera combo, who sent them back to Cambridge in less time than it takes to stage a Latin American coup with a 6-3, 6-4 triumph...
Some countries, like China, have been known to mete out swift execution to < their political prisoners. Others, like Cuba, imprison them for decades. Indonesia has a uniquely cruel approach. As early as this week, the Jakarta government intends to execute six men for their alleged roles in a 1965 coup attempt -- after keeping them behind bars for anywhere from 18 to 24 years. In February four other purported conspirators were sent before the firing squad. Those killings prompted a burst of protest from overseas, but despite the outcry the government is going ahead with its plan. According to a close...
When Lieut. General Hafez Assad seized power in Damascus in a 1970 military coup, he locked up many members of the previous regime, who are still behind bars. Eighteen people -- including Jadid, who was the strongman of the earlier government -- have remained in prison without charge or trial since their arrests between 1970 and 1972. Though the detainees, who are held in the notoriously grim Mezze military prison near Damascus, are allowed visitors, President Assad's government does not acknowledge that they are imprisoned...
...former chief intelligence and security officer of the Bureau of Customs, Bibit was being held on charges of attempting to overthrow the government during the failed December coup. "Today I am free again to continue our struggle for the cause of good government," said Bibit...
...such a battle, the raider, instead of trying to buy up a majority of the company's stock, holds a smaller stake and seeks to engineer a coup by enlisting the support of other stockholders. Unlike more routine shareholder proposals, which try to persuade management to change its stance on, say, investment in South Africa, the goal of a proxy fight is to urge stock owners to throw management out altogether. They may do so by casting their votes, in the form of variously hued proxy cards, for the dissident raider and his own roster of director nominees, who promise...