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Almost hour by hour, the swells of revolt kept growing. Nearly half the 60,000 inhabitants of Cap Haitien marched peacefully through the streets Wednesday afternoon, calling on the army to stage a coup d'etat and take power. There were also appeals for a general strike to begin Feb. 12. Such a sustained work stoppage would probably cripple the moribund Haitian economy, which gets much of its foreign currency from tourism...
...political schemer...you devious turncoat, that'll teach you to meddle in council politics." Standing amidst the remnants of my lunch and the smell of stale beer, I realized that in expressing my opinion on the divestment issue, I had unwittingly become an accomplice in a council coup d'etat...
...investment bankers, corporate chairmen and academic specialists. He also attended a symposium at Columbia University Law School on the ramifications of takeovers. Ungeheuer uses a different simile to describe the latest corporate craze: "During the 1960s, when I was a correspondent covering Africa, there were so many coups d'etat that it became tempting to ignore them. That's impossible to do with mergers: while the afflicted African countries seemed to get smaller and smaller, the mergers keep getting bigger and bigger...
...Coup D'Etat...
Argentine President Raul Alfonsin appeared angry and fatigued when he addressed a national television audience from the presidential residence last week. His assertion was startling: his political enemies had tried to involve high-ranking military officers in planning a coup d'etat. Leaning across his desk, the President reassured his countrymen: "The situation is under control by the constitutional government." Alfonsin urged Argentines to rally "in defense of democracy," a call that was answered at week's end by an estimated 170,000 people gathered in Buenos Aires...