Word: coup
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Actions as well as words have earned him admiration. During the hard-liners' attempted coup of 1991, for example, he led a paratroop squad that protected Yeltsin's headquarters, the White House. Tiraspol is the capital of Trans-Dniestr, a region of Moldova, one of the former Soviet republics. The inhabitants of Trans-Dniestr are largely Russian and Ukrainian, and for several years they have sought independence from Moldova. Lebed was sent to the region in 1992 to take command of the Fourteenth Army, and he intervened in the conflict between Moldovans and the Russian-speaking population. He has remained...
Brigadier General James C. Hill reported that he yanked the leash on two powerful enemies of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide rumored to be plotting a coup. Hill said he summoned to his office Franck Romain, a former Port-au-Prince police chief and mayor and former army chief Williams Regala, to warn them to stop their reported schemes against Aristide's government. TIME Miami correspondent Tammerlin Drummond reports: "Many Haitians feel that these former military leaders are just lying low until the last U.S. troops leave to make their move. There have been unconfirmed rumors of plots around Mardi Gras...
Premature Coup Rumors...
Brigadier General James C. Hill reported that he yanked the leash on two powerful enemies of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide rumored to be plotting a coup. Hill said he summoned to his office Franck Romain, a former Port-au-Prince police chief and mayor and former army chief Williams Regala, to warn them to stop their reported schemes against Aristide's government. TIME Miami correspondent Tammerlin Drummond reports: "Many Haitians feel that these former military leaders are just lying low until the last U.S. troops leave to make their move. There have been unconfirmed rumors of plots around Mardi Gras...
Fujimori is up for re-election in April. The man who took power in a 1992 self-coup had won broad support for his suppression of Maoist guerrillas and his efforts to jump-start the economy, but lately his approval rating has fallen from 90% to under 70%, largely due to the country's continuing widespread poverty. Fujimori has also suffered some personal embarrassments: his estranged wife Susana Higuchi embarked on a brief hunger strike last January, protesting her disqualification as a congressional candidate. Fujimori's Vice Minister of the Interior was rumored to have connections to drug traffickers after...