Word: coups
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...singular truths he had once searched for. "You realize that things don't have to make sense," he explains, in a way that does. The son of a Ghanaian diplomat dispatched to London's High Commission by the first post-independence government, which was unceremoniously displaced by a coup in 1966, Eshun was born in London while his father was a political prisoner in Ghana's capital, Accra. On his father's release, Eshun, his mother and three siblings returned to Ghana where they stayed until 1974, when his father took a second posting to London. Yet another coup changed...
...played it for the media last week along with a recording of what it said was the original, undoctored conversation. The edited tape, say Arroyo and her aides, is part of a broader plan by her rivals to discredit her, spark street protests and provide support to a military coup d'?tat. "I am saddened that while I am doing my job," Arroyo told a local radio station, "there are people who want to bring me down or undermine my capability to govern the country." General Efren Abu, Arroyo's armed forces Chief of Staff, put the military...
...ARRESTED. CHHUN YASITH, 48, Cambodian-American accountant and leader of the U.S.-based Cambodian Freedom Fighters; on federal charges of conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and engaging in a military expedition against a friendly nation, for allegedly orchestrating a failed 2000 coup against Cambodian leader Hun Sen; in Long Beach, California. In the attack, code named Operation Volcano, some 70 rebels unsuccessfully stormed government buildings in Phnom Penh, leaving dozens injured and eight people killed. Chhun, who has called Hun Sen's regime a puppet of Communist Vietnam, claimed at the time that the attack was a coup...
...resign and demand that a campus-wide election be held in the fall to elect a replacement vice president. This is the only way to ensure that the UC maintains the legitimacy that it has built up over years of service to the student body after this anti-democratic coup...
...most serious rift between Seoul and Washington arose late last year over contingency planning on what the U.S. and South Korea should do if the North Korean government starts to fall apart or a disgruntled North military officer stages a coup. Under current guidelines, a U.S. general would lead American and South Korean forces in any shooting war with the North, as long as the allies agree that the situation warrants military action. But under what circumstances would troops be called in? Worried that signs of instability in the North might mean nuclear weapons were falling into unknown hands, Washington...