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...never a threat and everybody knew that," a reinvigorated Helms told reporters during a home state visit. He aimed his next shot at the Raleigh News & Observer, which he said should have included the word "jokingly" when it quoted him on Clinton's safety. But Helms saved his coup de grace for the media in general: "You need to play a large role in cleaning up your act . . . The liberal news media is guilty of intellectual dishonesty. These liberal elitists shot themselves in the foot. The American people don't trust the news media. You ought to know...
Until now, Grachev's trump card has been his loyalty to Yeltsin: during the coup attempts of August 1991 and October 1993 it was Grachev's support, however reluctant, that inspired the military to stand behind the President. Yeltsin has consistently repaid Grachev by standing firmly behind his Defense Minister. Now there are signs that Yeltsin may be concluding that Grachev's liabilities outweigh his assets. The possibility that the Defense Minister may be forced to step down has already sparked a fierce debate over who might succeed him. Will Grachev be forced to make an ignominious exit...
Director Trevor Nunn and designer John Napier, the Cats team, have fashioned one coup de theatre after another, reprising Wilder's opening with the newly deceased hero (Alan Campbell as Joe Gillis) facedown in a swimming pool, and working up to a levitating mansion. This larger-than-larger-than-life approach ; doomed the gentle Aspects, but it suits the more histrionic material of Sunset. Some of the lyrics, though, have got to go. To have Joe sing that L.A. has changed a lot "since those brave gold rush pioneers/ Came in their creaky covered wagons" is ridiculous. L.A. barely existed...
TIME: Do you think there will be a coup before the elections...
Zhirinovsky: ((Those who are now in power)) are afraid of elections. A part of these democratic forces realize they would lose and are trying to introduce a state of emergency and postpone elections for 10 years or so. There is a great possibility of a military coup in the next six months, and again, the Jews will have a say in it. One of the candidates for the head of the military regime is General Boris Gromov, a hero of the war in Afghanistan. His second wife is Jewish. When his first wife, who was Russian, died, this woman...