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Meanwhile, Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze put down a coup attempt in Tbilisi and arrived several hours late for still another peace negotiation in Sochi. He and Yeltsin signed an agreement to end the fighting in South Ossetia, a part of Georgia where secessionists demand union with North Ossetia, a part of Russia...
Such sentiments may seem "naive." But it was just such a pro-Western "naivete" that sent thousands of Muscovites into the streets to defend fragile Russian democracy last August after Yeltsin climbed atop a tank to face down a coup...
...white-supremacist causes. In 1979 he joined Duke's Klan (one of many different Klan organizations), and soon moved up the ranks. Shortly after Duke stepped down as Imperial Wizard in 1980 to found the National Association for the Advancement of White People, Robb and another lieutenant staged a coup to topple Duke's successor, Don Black, then in prison for trying to engineer the takeover of a Caribbean island. In 1989 Robb became Grand Wizard...
...attracting publicity by staging events that draw the wrath of protesters. In Denver last January, he orchestrated a Klan rally on Martin Luther King Day that turned violent when anti-Klan protesters threw bottles, overturned a police car and battled police. The incident allowed Slater to score a publicity coup on CBS'S 48 Hours...
...delicate move, Thailand's King last week tiptoed past a military-backed contender and, after consultations with political leaders, appointed Anand Panyarachun, 59, a former diplomat and businessman, to be interim Prime Minister for the second time. Initially installed by the military following a February 1991 coup, Anand ran Thailand's most honest and competent government in decades before stepping down last March. His sensitive task now: to organize new elections and extricate the military from politics in response to last month's bloody pro-democracy street clashes...