Therefore, he argued, those who wouldn't use Guanhua would, by logical extension, not be able to use public lavatories either.When the Communists seized power in 1949 they happily took over the KMT's language agenda.
Plan Sofia proved to be a central piece of evidence against Efraín Ríos Montt, an evangelical Christian Army general who, in 1982, seized power and then presided over the most violent period of Guatemala's history.
Talk of a possible coup resurfaced in Bangkok as it tends to do at times of tension in a country where the military has seized power by force 18 times over the past 80 years.
Mr. Ríos Montt, 86, seized power in March 1982 and ruled over Guatemala for 17 months during a time when the army intensified its scorched-earth operations in the Mayan highlands to try to flush out leftist guerrillas.
They seized power in December after a mutiny in the military over low pay, charging that President Henri Konan Bedie was creating ethnic division in the country.
In 1991, he had seized power by force from a military dictator; a year later, he handed over power to a democratically elected president.
That could be particularly destabilizing because Joseph Kabila, Congo's first democratically elected president since Mr. Mobutu seized power in 1965, is already losing support over the unrest.
The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba over 40 years ago after Mr. Castro seized power in a 1959 revolution.
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda seized power in a bush war in 1986 and over the years shunted his nation of 32m people away from chaos.
Once Ayatollah Khomeini seized power, he capitalized on widespread popular sentiment against the United States after students took over the U.S. Embassy on November 4 1979.
