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...Spanish electorate did indeed switch its support from the Popular Party to the Socialists in the wake of the bombing, precipitating a shift in Spain’s Iraqi policy. Conservatives are right to point out that al Qaeda will likely view the Spanish elections as a major coup, a successful intervention into the domestic politics of a western democracy. This success could well invigorate and energize al Qaeda, and even encourage similar acts in the future...
...process, and we're going to follow their recommendations," says a Bush aide. The Administration is pinning its hopes on the proven diplomatic skills of U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who finessed the compromise over elections with Ayatullah Sistani last month. Washington is counting on him to pull off another coup by setting up Iraq's post--June 30 political structures. The veteran diplomat has responded with impressive sangfroid. "He's on vacation," says a top U.N. aide. The aide says Brahimi's plan is to ignore American entreaties to impose a solution and instead let the Iraqis thrash out their...
...week, it was hard to forget that Haiti's newest crisis resulted in part from the U.S.'s meager effort when it last intervened there. That was in 1994, when 20,000 U.S. troops restored Aristide to power after his first presidency had been aborted by a brutal military coup three years earlier. Says retired U.S. Army Lieut. General Joseph Kinzer, who headed 6,000 U.N. troops in Haiti in 1995-96: "The U.S. had a year-and-a-half plan for a 10-year operation...
...time Aristide's plane touched down in the Central African Republic, however, he was not sounding philosophical. He accused the Americans of carrying out a "geopolitical kidnapping," claiming he had been forced out by a U.S.-led "coup d'etat." Members of the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus have called for an investigation, but Secretary of State Colin Powell dismissed the allegations as "absurd...
...ouster. "Disney needs to do more than say it changed the titles on the doors," says Pat Macht of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, which owns 9.9 million shares of the company. Roy Disney, one of the chief dissident shareholders, believes the Philly split amounted to another Eisner coup: "Knowing Michael as I do, I don't think he had any intention--no matter what the vote...