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NEWS SPECIAL: COUP IN FIJI. 14/05/1987

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News Special: Fiji Coup. Newly elected Fijian Prime Minister Timothy Bavandra and 27 of his MPs have been taken at gunpoint from Parliament to an army camp near Suva. An announcement was broadcast over radio saying the Fiji armed forces had taken over government and that Col Sitiveni Rabuka had gone to the Governor-General to ask for recognition of the military government. In Wellington the ...
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1987
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Fiji
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MovingImage
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Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
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TELEVISION NEW ZEALAND
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