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...attributes her political survival againstseven failed coup attempts to determination andthe development of what she calls a mutual respectbetween the military and civilians...
...keeping the squeeze on Iraq, the U.S. should stop playing coy with potential coup leaders. It should say explicitly that sanctions and no-fly rules will stay in force until the powers that be in Baghdad, whoever they are, behave in a civilized fashion toward their subjects. Otherwise Saddam could end up having his revenge from beyond the grave on Kurds and coalition alike...
Debates still rage in Moscow about whether hard-liners might try another coup to restore something like the old communist regime. But the real question is, Why should they bother? Already, conservatives -- in a post-Soviet context, those who resist change in the old Kremlin ways -- have been staging a kind of "creeping coup." They have been worming their way into key positions in President Boris Yeltsin's administration and are beginning to bend policy toward continued, or even increased, state control of the economy. Crows Arkady Volsky, head of the anti-Yeltsin faction: "The policies of the reformist government...
...stalled. "But we have continually underestimated the savagery of this war," says a Western diplomat. "Kosovo is the one unifying issue he's got." If economic sanctions and international isolation make Serbs restive about Milosevic's rule, he could find a Kosovo clash very useful to prevent a coup by more radical Serbs who would consider peace a betrayal. The U.S. has received reports in the past few weeks that Serbs are moving heavy guns to Kosovo and conducting military exercises there...
...expected to | win big, and they could help him enshrine strong presidential powers in a new constitution. The capture may also ensure his re-election. Warns Gustavo Gorriti, a Peruvian journalist and expert on Sendero who lives in the U.S. but was briefly detained in Peru after the Fujimori coup: "The fall of Guzman, the main enemy of democracy, is paradoxically going to do a lot of harm to democracy in the short term by strengthening Fujimori...