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...attempt at a coup was thus a failure. In July of 1944, a few days after the attempt on Hitler's life, most of the leaders of the resistance were arrested. Trott went to his execution on August 26. A month before, he had told a friend that the English must bear some guilt for the failure of the plot against Hitler...
Mikhail Gorbachev probably doesn't realize just how much help he got from Ted Turner in fending off last summer's coup d'etat. Addressing independent filmmakers in Santa Monica, Calif., the hyperactive Atlantan informed a stunned audience that his decision to present Gone With the Wind in Soviet theaters changed the course of history. "It's a strong antiwar film," explained Turner. "I just think it had something to do with the fact that people there chose not to have a massive civil...
Time was when an editorial frown in Pravda could destroy the career of a party apparatchik or send a dissident to jail. But the demise of the Communist Party following last August's coup and the rising cost of newsprint today have put the squeeze on the former party newspaper. With its circulation down from 12 million to 1.3 million, Pravda announced last week that it will henceforth appear only on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. It may go out of business altogether in April...
Sure, he had done well in New Hampshire, but like many of my friends, I had viewed his coup as a negative vote against Bush--"the best thing the Democrats have going for them..." and all that. It just didn't seem possible to me that he could inspire a real groundswell of populist support...
...eventual return to office of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a populist priest and champion of the poor; the formation of a Cabinet of national unity under Prime Minister-designate Rene Theodore, a former Aristide rival and Communist Party moderate; and a general amnesty for those involved in the coup...