COUP

koo [Fr.,=blow], among Native North Americans of the Plains culture, a war honor, awarded for striking an enemy in such a way that it was considered an extreme act of bravery. Generally, coups were awarded according to the degree of difficulty and danger involved; the most extreme, such as striking an armed enemy with the bare hand, counted highest. Killing an enemy, wounding him, scalping him, or stealing his horse or gun—all these were coups of value. Recital of the deeds was an important social function, and a warrior with many coups held a high status and was honored at feasts, ceremonials, and in the tribe. After warfare had ceased, coups became transferable property, passing from the old men to the younger, who needed coups to acquire warrior status in the tribe.

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The Coup: Tactics in the Seizure of Power
Book by Bruce W. Farcau; Praeger Publishers, 1994
Subjects: Coups D'Aetat, Coups D'Aetat--Latin America
Many of the definitions of a coup focus on the involvement of the military...Solaun and Quinn, for example, define a coup as: "The unlawful removal and replacement...of this study, would be classified as a coup. One specific example that comes to mind...
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African Democratization and Military Coups
Book by Chuka Onwumechili; Praeger, 1998
Subjects: Civil-Military Relations--Africa, Coups D'Aetat--Africa, Democracy--Africa, Democratization--Africa
...opposition to a military coup is helpful, and...tions to military coups lead to a more peaceful...for unsuccessful coups in Africa is because coup makers fail to outgun...army. Rarely have coups failed because of...the Sierra Leone coup sup- ports this...
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Russia at the Barricades: Eyewitness Accounts of the August 1991 Coup
Book by Victoria E. Bonnell, Ann Cooper, Gregory Freidin; M.E. Sharpe, 1994
Subjects: Soviet Union--History--Attempted Coup, 1991--Personal Narratives, Soviet Union--History--Attempted Coup, 1991--Sources
...See Steven Erlanger, "Russia Suspends Coup Trial, Citing Bias by the Prosecutor...Growing Minority in Russia Wish 91 Coup Hadnt Failed" Associated Press , San Francisco...1992 , pp. 1-6. 36. Accounts of the coup and its aftermath may be found in the following...
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Book by Stephen Kinzer; John Wiley & Sons, 2003
Subjects: Iran--Politics And Government--1941-1979, Iran--Relations--United States, Mosaddeq, Mohammad--1880-1967, United States--Relations--Iran
...the forty-ninth anniversary of the 1953 coup. One television station broadcast a damning...mouthpiece for hard-liners, described the coup as having been launched against Mossadegh...as one of its agents. The lesson of the coup, this article said, was that Iranians...
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Military Rebellion in Argentina: Between Coups and Consolidation
Book by Deborah L. Norden; University of Nebraska Press, 1996
Subjects: Argentina--Armed Forces--Political Activity--History--20th Century, Argentina--Politics And Government--1983-, Civil-Military Relations--Argentina--History--20th Century, Conspiracies--Argentina--History--20th Century, Morale
...General Jorge Rafael Videla 134 . Development of the Coup Coalition The military coup of March 1976 surprised no one. Nonetheless, certain...event should be mentioned. To begin with, the 1976 coup was the most clearly professionalist instance of...
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Bakrnal: Coup, Carnival, and Calypso in Trinidad
Journal article by Kevin K. Birth; Ethnology, Vol. 33, 1994
Subjects: Calypso (Music)--Political aspects, Carnival--Political aspects, Coups d'etat--Social aspects, Politics and culture--Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago--Social aspects
...fights, riots, and attempted coups are also labelled as "hot...discussions of the attempted coup in the days immediately following...interviewed individuals about the coup attempt. Consequently, this...Trinidadians I studied. The attempted coup was a complex event, and while...
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A Club of Incumbents? the African Union and Coups D'etat
Journal article by Eki Yemisi Omorogbe; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 44, 2011
Subjects: African Union--Political aspects, Coups d'etat--Laws, regulations and rules
...of government by coup detat. Despite...that acting against coups violates the principle...response to the coups in Togo and Mauritania allowed a coup outcome to be validated...the Resurgence of Coups, supra note 155 (condemning the coup). (172.) ECOWAS...
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Post-transition Coups: Ecuador 2000 an Essay in Honor of Martin Needler1
Journal article by J. Samuel Fitch; Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Vol. 33, 2005
Subjects: Civil disobedience, Coups d etat, Economic crisis, Ecuador, Government, Political dissent
...staged two successful coups against elected presidents...In both cases, the coup leaders were later...in Latin America. COUPS AND COUP THEORIES In a little...in three successful coups, including the overthrow...Arosemena, and one failed coup, I found a reasonably...
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The 1992 Coup Attempts in Venezuela: Causes and Failure
Journal article by Sergei Baburkin, Andrew C. Danopoulos, Rita Giancalone, Erika Moreno; Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Vol. 27, 1999
Subjects: Armed forces, Coups d etat, Government, Perez, Carlos Andres, Politics, Sociology, Venezuela
...Venezuelan military staged two coup attempts against the constitutionally...Andres Perez. Though the coups failed to unseat the civilian...of the leaders of the coup attempt, Col. Hugo Chavez...punishment against his 1996 coup attempt disqualified him...Latin America: failed coups propel would-be coupmakers...
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Security through Solidarity: Honduran Women's Post-coup Strategies of Support and Survival
Journal article by Christine Gervais, Betsy Estevez; Journal of International Women's Studies, Vol. 12, 2011
Subjects: Alliances, Censorship, Citizenship, Coups d etat, Data collection, Equal rights, Feminism, Human rights, Light, Political activism, Research & development--R&D, Social change, Social justice, Violence, Women, Workshops
...the pervasiveness of the coups consequences, but they...economy resulting from the coup has also left the participants...The extent to which the coup has left these already...another example of the coups extended repercussions...telling: "After the coup we have to face problems...
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The Coup That Disrupted Africa's Forward March: June Milne the Former Research and Editorial Assistant to Kwame Nkrumah and Later His Literary Executrix, on the Coup That Set Africa Back. "It Is Not Difficult to Imagine the Greatly Improved Condition of the African People Today If Nkrumah Had Continued in Power in Ghana to Lead the Pan-African Movement," She Writes
Magazine article by June Milne; New African, February 2006
Subjects: Coups d'etat--Political aspects, Nkrumah, Kwame--Political activity, Presidents (Government)--Political activity, Presidents--Political activity, Toure, Ahmed Sekou--Political activity
...only three weeks before the coup. It was at a time when Nkrumah...working on a peace plan. But a coup to remove him from power was...Africa, as elsewhere, military coups have often been carried out...was overthrown. A military coup occurred in Guinea soon after...
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Cote d'Ivoire Coup: Surprise? What Surprise?
Magazine article by Paul Michaud; African Business, February 2000
Subjects: Bedie, Henri Konan--Behavior, Cote d'Ivoire--Political aspects, Coups d'etat--Cote d'Ivoire, Guei, Robert--Behavior, National government
Cote dIvoire Coup: Surprise? What Surprise? by Paul Michaud The Christmas coup in one of the most stable countries in Africa, Cote...believed, the French government and the leader of the coup itself. However, as Paul Michaud reveals, there...
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Zimbabwe How the British Lost $15M in a Bogus Coup
Magazine article by Memory Godobori; New African, October 2011
Subjects: British foreign relations--Political aspects, Coups d'etat--Management, Quackery--Methods, Quacks and quackery--Methods, Zimbabwe--Political aspects
...Zimbabwe How the British Lost $15M in a Bogus Coup. by Memory Godobori According to unimpeachable...Nigerian" generals who offered to organise a coup against President Robert Mugabe on behalf...Zimbabwean capital, Harare, say a "military coup" project involving five alleged "Nigerian...
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The Pakistan Coup
Magazine article; World and I, Vol. 15, January 2000
Subjects: Coups d'etat--Pakistan, India, Indian foreign relations--Pakistan, Musharraf, Pervez--Political activity, Pakistan--International relations, Pakistani foreign relations--India, Pakistani foreign relations--South Asia, Pakistani foreign relations--United States, South Asia, United States, United States foreign relations--Pakistan
The Pakistan Coup. Dangerous takeover UNITED STATES--The military coup in Pakistan is cause for alarm in South Asia and the...Minister Nawaz Sharif should have seen the military coup coming. However, the previous coup against him, in...
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Hugo Chavez on the Failed Coup: Hugo Chavez Interviewed by Marta Harnecker
Magazine article by Marta Harnecker; Monthly Review, Vol. 57, September 2005
Subjects: Chavez, Hugo--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Chavez, Hugo--Political activity, Coups d'etat--Evaluation, Coups d'etat--Excerpts
Hugo Chavez on the Failed Coup: Hugo Chavez Interviewed by Marta Harnecker...Chavez recounts the events of the failed coup detat of April 11, 2002.--Eds. Marta...you were detained during the April 11 coup, could you tell me your strongest memories...
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Nine, Not 7, Coup Situations
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 15, 2009
Subjects: Coups d'etat--Reports
Nine, Not 7, Coup Situations. First of two parts nbsp; ldquo;If a coup d rsquo; eacute;tat starts in the minds of men...These reports, however, invariably speak of only 7 coup attempts or mutinies against the Government during...
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Coup Leader Pays His Tribute
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 3, 2009
Subjects: Aquino, Corazon--Appreciation, Coups d'etat
Coup Leader Pays His Tribute. Another key leader in the series of coup attempts launched against the administration of then...Commercial Center for seven days last December 1, 1989 in coup launched by rebel officers then led by Army Lt. Col...
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Coup Rumors Are Baseless
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 6, 2009
Subjects: Coups d'etat
Coup Rumors Are Baseless. Renewed rumors of coup attempts are a waste of time and distracting to serious efforts at economic recovery.At least, no coup attempt will succeed between now and 2010, and neither will...
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Concept Propels Stunning Coup into Comfort Zone; Val Jessop Tests the Volkswagen Passat CC 1.8 TSI
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), April 1, 2009
Subjects: Automobile industry, Coups d'etat, Daimler-Benz AG, Volkswagen AG, Volkswagen Passat (Automobile)
Concept Propels Stunning Coup into Comfort Zone; Val Jessop Tests the...wonder car. VWs take on the majestic Merc coup is a revelation in what can successfully...The result is the Passat CC. Not a Coup Cabriolet, as its moniker might suggest...
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Coup Leader Pays His Tribute
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 3, 2009
Subjects: Aquino, Corazon--Appreciation, Coups d'etat
Coup Leader Pays His Tribute. Another key leader in the series of coup attempts launched against the administration of then...Commercial Center for seven days last December 1, 1989 in coup launched by rebel officers then led by Army Lt. Col...
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August Coup
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...illness, the leaders of the coup formed an eight-man Committee...denounced the new leadership. The coup collapsed as the Committee found...devolved to Yeltsin, who used the coups failure to eliminate the political...Union (CPSU). The August Coup resulted in a minimal loss of...
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Coup
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COUP koo Fr.,=blow, among Native...act of bravery. Generally, coups were awarded according to the...horse or 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...
3.
Thailand
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...constitution, established after the 2006 coup, its 17th since 1932. The king is the...dominance in Siam that provoked an antiforeign coup (1688). Phaulkon was executed, and...constitutional monarchy in 1932, when a bloodless coup forced Prajadhipok (reigned 1925 35...
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Guinea-Bissau
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...PAIGC-controlled areas. Following the coup in Portugal (1974), the new Portuguese...support for the Portuguese. In 1980 a coup brought Joao Bernardo Vieira to power...intervened on Vieiras behalf, but the coup almost marked the beginning of a period...
5.
Burundi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...for power among the Tutsis. In 1965 a coup attempted by Hutus failed, and the Tutsis...ruler was himself deposed by a military coup in Nov., 1966, when a republic was established...who became Burundis head of state after a coup in 1987. Outcry after a Hutu uprising...
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