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...Ernie Ford recording of Onward, Christian Soldiers played first thing Sunday morning over Radio Uganda On hearing the hymn, conspirators outside Kampala would know that Uganda's erratic, xenophobic President general Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada was dead and would move to consolidate the coup d'état in the countryside. Last week, right on schedule, a "special request" was phoned in to the station and the hymn went out over the air vvaves. But instead of signaling the demise of Amin's brutal dictatorship, it turned into a threnody for the rebels...
...Teat for Tat...
...Trade Dictionary will readily attest. In trade jargon like ours, which is fraught with such unpedigreed English phrases as "mating parts," "male and female threads," "bastard connections" and "nogo nipples," perhaps your comment on our display (which received a merit award from the Soviets) was only teat for tat...
...move quietly and efficiently. Police and troops quickly surrounded the suburban home of President George Papadopoulos and placed him under arrest while tanks rolled unopposed into the main squares of Athens. By the time the Greek people learned that their country had undergone its second coup d' état in six and a half years, the army had already sworn in a new president, Lieut. General Phaedon Ghizikis, a rightist and friend of deposed King Constantine...
...wouldn't believe the look on their faces," he recalls. "They can't believe this guy. I'm honestly afraid he might force a revolt in this country. Hell, this ain't a banana republic. We don't want a coup d'état. But he's going to drive some people...