Word: putsch
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While the audacious putsch introduced a new and disquieting dimension of Muslim extremism to the Caribbean, Jamaat al-Muslimeen remains a fringe group. Still, leaders attending last week's annual Caribbean Community meeting in Jamaica were haunted by the specter of Middle East-style Muslim uprisings...
Iskandar, 69, is among an estimated 50 Indonesians who remain in prison for their alleged complicity in the 1965 putsch against then President Sukarno. The uprising was launched by junior army officers purportedly in concert with senior members of the now outlawed Indonesian Communist Party. The six detainees expected to be put to death soon are Iskandar and Ruslan Widjayasastra, 72, both party Central Committee members; I. Bungkus, 61, a sergeant in Sukarno's elite security guard; Marsudi, 53, a sergeant major in the air force; Sukatno, 61, chairman of the party's youth organization; and Asep Suryaman...
Although the Ciskei putsch was bloodless, 27 people died in ensuing riots. Eleven people were killed in Bophuthatswana. Among the demands of the rebellious blacks: reintegration of their homelands into South Africa. Ciskei, Bophuthatswana and Venda are among ten territories made nominally independent or self-governing since 1972. By relegating blacks to these impoverished areas, Pretoria hoped to leave the rest of South Africa to the whites...