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...BURUNDI Coup Attempt Fails Soldiers loyal to Burundian President Pierre Buyoya foiled a coup attempt by junior military officers. Calling themselves the Patriotic Youth Front, a band of about 40 soldiers seized control of state radio and aired a taped statement that said, "The government that is killing people is over." But within hours the rebel troops had surrendered. Buyoya, who was in Gabon holding talks to end Burundi's civil war, returned home the next day without incident. Fighting between ethnic Tutsi and Hutu in Burundi has killed at least 200,000 people since...
...artist embodied the tortured contradictions of contemporary Japan as completely as Mishima, the homosexual who worried about Japan's effeminate image, the sickly aesthete who turned himself into a modern-day samurai and in 1970 finally committed seppuku, the ancient samurai ritual suicide, after failing to inspire a coup d'Etat. Mishima was thoroughly steeped in the traditions of Western literature - his early work shows the imprint of Oscar Wilde and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion is wholly Dostoyevskian - but he was obsessed with the notion of purifying the national character and returning Japan to its pre-Meiji...
...ouster when street protests threatened chronic instability, the military remains the ultimate arbiter of power in Jakarta. And while they're staying out of the parliamentary fray, the generals have warned the politicians to keep their differences off the streets. While there are no fears of an imminent coup, a long-term bout of political instability at the center amid an unraveling in the provinces would certainly raise the temptation among the generals to reassert a more direct grip on power. And right now it's hard to imagine any of the alternatives to Wahid escaping the chronic instability...
This counterfeit Hamlet is further strengthened by Funke’s additions and changes, making it interesting to see what would happen next. His coup de grace was definitely an altered version of the scene where Claudius is praying and confessing his sins and Hamlet is trying to decide whether to kill him then or wait. In Funke’s adaptation, both Horatio and Claudius are praying, confessing to similar sins. Though the text is very close to Shakespeare’s, Horatio and Claudius alternate lines and occasionally speak at the same time. The effect is both interesting...
Despite his arrest on serious corruption charges, former Philippines president Joseph Estrada may yet elude prison - and not simply because of the merits or demerits of the case against him. Estrada, who was deposed in a constitutional coup in February and replaced by his vice president, Gloria Arroyo, was arrested Wednesday after police prevailed in scuffles with thousands of Estrada supporters gathered outside his home. Prosecutors allege that the former action-movie star, who campaigned for the presidency as a populist champion of the poor, had illegally amassed some $80 million during his presidency. The charge of economic plunder carries...