Word: sankara
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Compaore is a former minister of state and of justice. His support was crucial to the 1983 coup by Sankara...
...person answering the telex at the presidential palace last night in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, said the city was quiet and Sankara's whereabouts were not known. The person, who would not provide identification, also insisted there were no casualties...
According to a communique read on the Burkina Faso radio, the country's borders were closed, a 9 p.m.-5 a.m. curfew imposed, and Sankara's National Revolutionary Council dissolved. It declared today a holiday so the nation could celebrate the former president's ouster...
...Sankara had close ties with Moammar Kadhafi, although his support for the unpredictable Libyan leader was confined to rhetoric and he was considered a thorn in the side of France and other Western nations...
...widely praised in the Third World for his attacks on Western "imperialism." Sankara dressed in camouflage outfits, with a red beret, and wore a pearl-handled revolver at international meetings...