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...ethnic civil war two years ago, diplomats have been watching for similar tensions to boil over in its volatile Central African neighbor, Burundi. Now they have. Wednesday, Burundi President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya found himself holed up in the the U.S. embassy after what appeared to be a swift military coup led by ethnic Tutsis, the rival tribe that controls the military. Ntibantunganya, a member of the Hutu tribe, had led an unstable coalition government with the UNPRONA, a Tutsi-led party. "The president was a moderating influence that the international community could rally around," reports TIME's Andrew Purvis. "Now nothing...
BUJUMBURA, Burundi: The Central African country of Burundi has a bloody three year old civil war between the Tutsi and Hutu tribes climaxed yesterday with a military coup as the Tutsis, who control the military, took over the government. Today, in a radio broadcast to the nation, the new Tutsi President Pierre Buyoya, freshly-installed by the army, demanded that the international community respond to the coup as an action of salvation intended to stop Burundi's "descent into hell." The new military regime, Buyoya said, would bring a quick end to the massacres and "criminality." Meanwhile, President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya...
...ethnic civil war two years ago, diplomats have been watching for similar tensions to boil over in its volatile Central African neighbor, Burundi. Now they have. Wednesday, Burundi President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya found himself holed up in the the U.S. embassy after what appeared to be a swift military coup led by ethnic Tutsis, the rival tribe that controls the military. Ntibantunganya, a member of the Hutu tribe, had led an unstable coalition government with the UNPRONA, a Tutsi-led party. "The president was a moderating influence that the international community could rally around," reports TIME's Andrew Purvis. "Now nothing...
MICHAEL DUFFY scores a small coup this week with a behind-the-scenes story from the presidential campaign. He describes how Bob Dole, pressured by House Speaker Newt Gingrich, missed a crucial opportunity to blunt one of the Democrats' favorite wedge issues, gun control, first dropping his plan to promise a repeal of the unpopular assault-weapons ban, then changing his mind again, but too late to reap the political reward. "I wanted to autopsy one moment in a very difficult time for Dole," says Duffy, TIME's national political correspondent. "You get the feeling he believes this campaign doesn...
...says. "People are starving to death in this enormous prison state. The only way out of the country is to drive 12 hours across the desert to Jordan. And Saddam keeps a hangman on duty 24 hours a day." Marlowe also cautions that there are at least three reported coup attempts each year, many of which are unfounded rumors floated by Saddam's enemies to create an air of instability. "We try to take these reports with a grain of salt. The Iraqi dissidents have a vested interest in getting word out that the country is destabilizing," she says...