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...after France sent military observers to assess the possibility of deploying a multinational force. The conflict began after Ugandan troops pulled out of the region as part of a peace deal to end five years of civil war. Getting Ahead NORTH KOREA In what appears to be a major coup in Washington's diplomatic battle with Pyongyang over nuclear weapons, the CIA last month recruited a foreign nuclear scientist who worked on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, two U.S. officials and a foreign government source told TIME. The scientist provided valuable information on the "location, degree of development...
...reserves, as much of the rest of the world believes--it will be a historic first. The yardstick to measure U.S. intentions will be 1950s Iran. (See following story.) Before the U.S.-inspired overthrow of the Iranian government, American oil companies had no presence in that country. After the coup, five U.S. oil companies moved in and produced oil for the next 25 years. More dependent on imports than ever before, the U.S. today is seeking to diversify its sources...
Media accounts of the coup were seemingly straightforward. The Washington Post reported that Iran had been saved from falling into communist hands and that the communists were blaming Brigadier General H. Norman Schwarzkopf "for alleged complicity in the coup." The paper said Schwarzkopf, whose namesake son would lead U.S. forces nearly a half-century later as they drove the Iraqi military out of Kuwait, had visited Iran "but only to see friends, the State Department said." TIME reported: "This was no military coup, but a spontaneous popular uprising...
...Charged. Ratu Jope Seniloli, Vice President of Fiji; with treason and sedition for his involvement in the May 2000 nationalist coup that toppled the South Pacific nation's democratic government; in Suva, Fiji. George Speight, the rebel leader whose gunmen stormed Fiji's Parliament and held it for 56 days, had appointed Seniloli President of his illegal government. Seniloli is the highest-ranking government official to face charges related to the coup...
...explains: “Boulanger became immensely popular. If he hadn’t lost his nerve on the night of the attempted putsch, French democracy might have ended in 1889.” In case the logical connection between Bush donning a flight suit and Boulanger plotting a coup isn’t clear, Krugman slyly asks, “Has ‘man on horseback’ politics come to America...