Word: paule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drama began a week earlier, when Namphy attempted to reassign Colonel Jean-Claude Paul, a Manigat loyalist who was indicted in Miami three months ago on drug-trafficking charges. But Paul balked at being transferred to a less important military post, and was backed up by Manigat, who rescinded Namphy's order. Two days later, the President dismissed Namphy himself for "insubordination." Attempting to consolidate his power, Manigat had Namphy placed under house arrest and announced the reassignment or retirement of 37 officers...
...theory, Namphy was merely a pawn, forced into action by his own men. Others point to a Machiavellian third possibility: that the coup was a brilliantly executed scheme in which the military feigned an internal split to force Manigat to act rashly. The last theory assumes that Namphy and Paul were actually co- conspirators. Farfetched as that may seem, it was striking to see Paul, presumably in an act of self-preservation, standing at Namphy's side the morning after the coup...
From his exile in Santo Domingo, Manigat appeared to discredit the notion of a conspiracy between Namphy and Paul. He claimed that Namphy had moved against Paul because the colonel had arrested ten soldiers loyal to Namphy, allegedly for their involvement in terrorist activities. Late last week Paul's future remained uncertain. A Haitian businessman with ties to the military said that Paul was making inquiries about countries he might escape to that have no extradition treaties with the U.S. or Haiti...
...time of constant warnings that the U.S. is in decline, Japan, above all other nations, is conspicuously on the rise. "There's no reason that Japan won't continue to grow," says Yale History Professor Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. "Its economic drive is pushing it toward center stage." Most experts agree. "The American century is over," says Clyde Prestowitz, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration and author of Trading Places: How We Allowed Japan to Take the Lead. "The big development in the latter part...