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...everyone had forgotten about the coup d'etat Jaruzelski had engineered and about his violent crack-down against Solidarnosc. At the time, Western nations reacted to such outrageous act firmly, isolating Poland politically and levying economic sanctions...
...that the Right seeks power, but that it seeks it in and through the Supreme Court. All political groups and interests have a right to advocate a political agenda, elect candidates, and attempt to change government policy. The judiciary, however, is not the place for a coup d'etat...
...country has come under question. Despite an absence of any domestic difficulties during Aquino's recent tour of Indonesia, remarks made by Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, a graduate of the Law School, have aroused controversy and speculation as to whether he plans to stage a coup d'etat during his bosses trip. Enrile enjoys strong support from the military and was one of the primary players in the ousting of Marcos...
...history books just yet. Last week the ousted President of the Philippines and his supporters sought to seize the offensive by both word and deed. From his exile in Hawaii, Marcos in an interview with TIME boldly charged a direct American role in a "conspiracy for a coup d'etat" that he claimed was quashed by loyal forces before he fled the Philippines on Feb. 26. In interviews with a Manila radio station, the former dictator also reversed his calls of just a week earlier to support President Corazon Aquino and exhorted followers to agitate against the new government. Coming...
...dramatic return last week was made possible by Zia's decision last Dec. 30 to suspend martial law for the first time in 8 1/2 years. Zia took power in a 1977 coup d'etat that overthrew Benazir's father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Two years later, he allowed the elder Bhutto to be hanged in connection with an alleged murder plot against a political rival. Last year Zia engineered the ^ first steps toward a new Pakistani democracy by allowing long-promised parliamentary elections, though he banned political parties. After martial law was lifted, he turned over many government functions...