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...surprised immigration official discovered a gun in one of the visitors' bags, the chap's companions whipped out automatic weapons. Obviously, this was no ordinary package tour. This was a coup, and the sportsmen were mercenaries hired to topple the left-wing regime of President Albert Ren...
After the mercenaries waged a 20-hour airport battle with government forces, the coup collapsed. Forty-four of the mercenaries escaped by hijacking an Air India Boeing 707 that had landed during the battle; the others were dead, arrested or in hiding. President René launched a nationwide man hunt and ordered all foreigners in the islands-including visiting U.S. Ambassador William Harrop-confined to their hotels...
...attackers-mostly said to be former members of Rhodesian and South African army units as well as a few Americans, Britons and other Europeans-were reportedly paid $1,000 and promised a further $10,000 if their mission was successful. It was unclear who put up the money. René, 46, who was established in power by a coup in 1977, has plenty of enemies. His Marxist leanings have embittered wealthy islanders and prompted two previous coup attempts...
...plans for 14 months dropped their opposition. After 114 years, declared the ebullient Prime Minister, "Canada will become, in a technical and legal sense, an independent country." Still, Trudeau faced one important challenge to his dream. The lone holdout against his plan among the ten premiers was René Lévesque, leader of predominantly French-speaking Quebec, who warned, "Never will we accept that our traditional and fundamental powers be removed without our consent...
...When Ren Wanding [head of the Chinese Human Rights League], Wei Jingsheng, Fu Yuehua, Chen Lu, Zhang Wenhe and others were arrested in March 1979, the event was followed closely by the Chinese and foreign press. Why this concern about the fate of a few ordinary Chinese citizens? It is because the arrests had created a cold March wind that was blowing across the Chinese political horizon...