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...time, an overthrown Big Boy almost invariably expired along with his power. Now, in the era of telephone and television (to keep track of how close the other side is coming) and the helicopter and jet (for rapid extraction when the front door gives way), there is building an exclusive international brotherhood of exiled Big Boys with leftover lives to kill...
Nonetheless, Grenada's prime minister, Herbert Blaize, declared a national holiday for Reagan's visit. He said the president did "the thing that helped us get out of a hole when we needed it most" by sending U.S. troops after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was overthrown and assassinated...
Many thought the second-generation Duvalier lacked his father's force and intelligence. Still, even as the country's living standard sank progressively under his rule, there was little indication that Jean-Claude might be overthrown. In 1980 he married Michele, a divorcee with two children. Her million-dollar splurges on clothes and diamonds soon came to gall a country that could not even feed its people...
That common touch has served Babangida well since last Aug. 27, when he came to power in a military coup. Babangida deposed the country's former military leader, Major General Mohammed Buhari, who himself had overthrown the government of President Shehu Shagari in a 1983 New Year's Eve coup. Buhari had alienated the country of some 95 million people with his repressive tactics, which included jailing political enemies and using military tribunals instead of civil courts to dispense justice. Babangida's bloodless, well- planned takeover was the fifth in Nigeria since it gained independence from Britain...
Less than 24 hours later, Radio Lesotho opened its morning broadcast with a loud burst of the national anthem and a terse announcement that Jonathan's government had been overthrown and replaced with a military council headed by Major General Justin Lekhanya, 47. The country's King Moshoeshoe II, 47, remained head of state and was given additional powers beyond his ceremonial role...