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Military Coups in Africa: Unconditional Condemnation?
Magazine article from: Strategic Review for Southern Africa; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...members, and not treat coup leaders in the same...Condemnation of coups in Africa is not new...following the second coup in Togo, the incidence of successive coups in Africa seemed to...their reaction to coups. East African countries...following the military coup in August 1996, ...
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Coups that lack violence still bode ill; Bluffers guide
Newspaper article from: The Press; 12/26/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...sanitised military coups of 2006, notably...Start with the word "coup" itself. It can...perpetrators of a previous coup. And no doubt Bainimarama...instigators of guardian coups. Pinochet, after...the prospect of a coup de grace being administered...Fiji's habit of coups seems ...
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'53 coup in Iran turned into blueprint for CIA
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 4/16/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...written by the CIA's chief coup planner and obtained by The...into taking part in his own coup. The operation was the blueprint for later CIA plots to foment coups and destabilize governments - including the successful coup in Guatemala in 1954 and the...
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'My coup is better than yours'
Newspaper article from: The Press; 5/23/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Rabuka asked him to abandon his coup. "I said, no way andI won...the bandwagon and support the coup,"he says. When Mr Speight compares the two coups he comes to the conclusion that hisis superior "My coup is better. It was better executed...
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Thai Coup Leaders Struggle for Acceptane
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/27/2006; 700+ words
; ...governments quickly condemned the coup as a setback to democracy...Netniyom, a spokesman for the coup leaders. "But we also understand...with its history of military coups, has always been fragile...military seized power Sept. 19, coup leaders said they intervened...
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Thai Coup Leaders Seeking Acceptance
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/27/2006; 700+ words
; ...governments quickly condemned the coup as a setback to democracy...Netniyom, a spokesman for the coup leaders. "But we also understand...with its history of military coups, has always been fragile...military seized power Sept. 19, coup leaders said they intervened...
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Honduran Coup Turns Violent, Sanctions Imposed
Newspaper article from: La Prensa San Diego; 7/3/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...unambiguous in its condemnation of the coup and support of President Zelaya...stated: "We believe that the coup was not legal and that President...which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition...so you're not calling it a coup, is that correct? Legally...
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Plenty Coups tales aid culture lessons
Newspaper article from: The Billings Gazette; 3/27/2004; ; 700+ words
; When Crow Chief Plenty Coups learned that he had won a land...courtroom, grabbed his coup stick and proudly sang a victory...a Crow who argued Plenty Coups' case, liked to share with...Crow Reservation. At Plenty Coups' request, Yellowtail accompanied...
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Coup name to the fore at Riccarton
Newspaper article from: The Press; 9/11/2004; ; 524 words
; ...spring features after another great day at Riccarton Park yesterday. Coupland had three winners, Coup Dean, Coup Stravinsky, and Justine Coup on yesterday's card. He also posted three seconds with Coup Loch, Coup Biscuit and Coup Taine...
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Coup crumbles // Gorbachev regains `full control' on dramatic day
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/21/1991; 700+ words
; ...forces of the country" have foiled the coup against him. The statement, read by an...Yeltsin, who spearheaded opposition to the coup, and with the leaders of Kazakhstan...They all denounced the attempted state coup, which was prevented as a result of decisive...
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Coup d’etat
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...the event is a coup d ’ etat...failed and successful coups may involve many...their countries. Coup leaders often proclaim...x201D; but coups are not revolutions...the population; coups are made by a few coup-makers who are...
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Plenty Coups
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...with spiritual power), Plenty Coups became a feared warrior. He...Medicine Crow explained that Plenty Coups was particularly noted for horse...combat, and striking the first coup (hitting an enemy with the...object) in a battle. Plenty Coups was able to achieve each of...
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August Coup
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
August Coup attempted coup (Aug. 18-22, 1991) against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev...removed from his position as president due to illness, the leaders of the coup formed an eight-man Committee of the State of Emergency and attempted...
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August coup
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
August coup (19–21 Aug. 1991) A coup attempt against the reformist Soviet leader Gorbachev . It...and declared the new leaders' orders void. Ultimately, the coup failed owing to popular support for Yeltsin, who was also...
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coup
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
coup [Fr.,=blow], among Native...act of bravery. Generally, coups were awarded according to the...gun—all these were coups of value. Recital of the deeds...function, and a warrior with many coups held a high status and was honored...
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