Word: mu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...junior officer corps closed ranks behind the insurgents. Tanks, armored personnel carriers and 105-mm howitzers appeared in the plaza before the ornate, colonnaded National Palace. As some 500 infantry troops encircled the area, the coup's chief planner, a boyish, clean-shaven captain named Carlos Rodolfo Muñoz Piloña, set up his field headquarters in an arcade of shops on the far side of the square...
...high-risk maneuver to boost exports and slow the drain on the country's financial reserves, López Portillo's finance secretary, David Ibarra Muñoz, last month orchestrated a 40% devaluation of the Mexican peso. Unfortunately, the action has done little yet to ease any of the economy's underlying woes. Last week Muňoz resigned, to be replaced by Jesus Silva Herzog, a Yale-educated economist and close friend of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, López Portillo's hand-picked presidential successor when nationwide elections are held in July...
...Fogg help us place him into perspective among Dutch masters of the 17th century, but the repercussions of his genius go far beyond Haarlem. Amsterdam or Egmond of the 1660s or '70s. The Ruisdeal exhibition proves that the Fogg continues to champion the first-two-definitions of "mu-se-um," and--especially with plans for the addition alive again--the third: "something that resembles a museum...
Almost half the student body belongs to a fraternity or sorority; as one Phi Mu puts it, "There just isn't very much social life anywhere else." But the sports oriented, rah-rah atmosphere associated with the Greeks is absent. "There's not much interest in sports around here, with the possible exception of basketball," one student from nearby Richmond says. "Hardly anyone goes to football games...
Mugabe's first stop in the U.S. was Harlem, where he appealed for solidarity between American and African blacks. His audience replied with cheers, raised fists and chants of "Mu-ga-be." But officially he had come to the U.S. to address the U.N., where his nation formally took its place as the 153rd member in the General Assembly. With a certain irony, the Zimbabwe delegation was seated right behind that of Britain, its former colonial master. Mugabe, however, had no time for recriminations. He praised Britain for "a job well done" in negotiating the turnover of his country...