Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even the Puritans might have lost the black-and-white color scheme, thrown on a lei and put "Little Duece Coup" on the Sony if they had experienced yesterday in Cambridge...
This time the desperate nation was Burundi. Vicious fighting erupted in the central African state when military officers from the Tutsi tribe murdered President Melchior Ndadaye, a member of the rival Hutus. As the attempted coup collapsed, both tribes massacred thousands of people and put hundreds of thousands to flight. Please, government officials begged the United Nations, send us peacekeepers...
...appointment of West, who refused a position in the Afro-American Studies Department in 1990, is a great coup for a department which had only one tenured faculty member in 1989, Gates said...
Former President George Bush thought we did. He rushed to sign NAFTA before the Republican Convention. Bush saw the treaty as a silver bullet--a foreign policy coup which demonstrated his concern for the American economy...
...That's why we went along. But we never had any intention of really agreeing to Governors Island, as I'm sure everyone can now figure out for themselves. We were playing for time." (Aristide himself never liked the U.N. plan, which grants amnesty to those who mounted the coup against him. Three weeks ago, he told TIME the U.S. had pressured him to sign...