Word: coups
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...Dole and Jack Kemp have taken to calling President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore '69 their "opponents." Peninsula, on the other hand, explains that its agenda is "in keeping with the time-honored practice of making a list and checking it twice in order to ensure when the coup comes around the firing squad knows who's been naughty or nice." A fine metaphor, really, for Peninsula's subsequent attacks on Jews, intellectuals, blacks, homosexuals and the Church. Sound like any other intolerant regime in recent memory...
...based in Jordan. Wifaq's 80 to 100 members included several prominent former Iraqi army officers and onetime officials of Saddam's regime. Its objective was to penetrate Saddam's elite Republican Guard, but the group was infiltrated by his agents. Last June, Saddam got wind of a Wifaq coup plan and ordered organization members seized in Baghdad. By July, at least several dozen plotters had been executed, and as many as 2,000 suspects were held and presumably tortured before some were released...
Since the military coup in July, Burundi has been under economic embargo, an attempt by its neighbors to force the rulers to restore the constitution and begin peace talks between the tribes. Three days after Ruhuna's death, military leader Major Pierre Buyoya lifted restrictions on the parliament and political parties. The constitution, however, remains suspended, and Buyoya is balking at talks with Hutu rebels. Meanwhile, Rome mourned the death of the man Pope John Paul II called a "generous minister of God." The pontiff will send Cardinal Jozef Tomko, head of the Vatican's office for missions, to celebrate...
Wilson's decision to move from the University of Chicago to Harvard made headlines across the nation. Wilson--whom Gates calls the "coup of coups"--cited two reasons for the move: Harvard's brain trust of African American thinkers and its politically connected halls...
...cooperation and betrayal want independence but fight each other more ferociously than anyone else. As the overseer of the Kurd safe haven established after the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. is only tangentially involved, its main interest in the messy struggle being to provide a counterweight--or deliver a coup de grace--against Saddam. Handed an engraved invitation to regain some power in his own northern territory, Saddam saw his opportunity and took...