Word: tat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said, is not automatically reviewable by the court. One example: impeachment. Chicago's Kurland put the point neatly when he noted that the opinion "says no more than 'the President cannot assert that he is the law, because we are the law.' L 'état, c 'est nous...
...civilian Prime Minister Adeline da Palma Carlos, a moderate, and got their own man installed as his successor. They then presided over the appointment of a new military-dominated Cabinet. As one Lisbon newspaper editor observed, "The young officers have carried out a second coup d'état...
...action to explode without leading up to it with an interminable train of exposition-in this case short lectures on every conceivable subject from the state of the world's platinum market to exactly how a consignment of German Schmeissers for an African coup d'état should be welded into oil drums-the better to foil the customs with, my dear. Forsyth's fact-filled thriller about a bad moneyman in London and how he uses a white mercenary to topple an African dictator and get the local platinum concession does not really get going until...
...pointed ridicule of two of Nixon's favorite phrases were not isolated incidents. Two days later, Wang Hung-wen, party vice-chairman and No. 3 man in Peking's Politburo, accused the U.S. of having directly "engineered the reactionary coup d'état" of 1970, which toppled Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk. Wang described "U.S. imperialism" as "armed to the teeth"-a highly belligerent image in Chinese...
...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...