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...lead at the polls was so commanding -- he had 87% of the vote -- that few doubted his hold on power. Last week he made history again, this time in an ignominious way: he became the first elected President of a former Soviet republic to be ousted in a paramilitary coup...
...demonstrators. Ioseliani defended the use of terror to enforce a state of emergency in Tbilisi, but it has not lessened the danger of civil war breaking out in other parts of Georgia, especially in the western regions, where armed Gamsakhurdia supporters have already challenged the new regime. The coup leaders also face difficulties with the republic's restive South Ossetian and Abkhasian minorities, who are pressing for their own independence...
...sure. "The situation is extraordinarily tense," said a city council member. "The old authorities -- the communists -- realize that this may be their last chance to regain power. We are hungrier than any other big Russian city." He and other officials who support Sobchak said they fear a possible local coup attempt against the reform-minded mayor, whom hard-liners have been trying to force out for weeks. The period of greatest vulnerability for such an act, say several city officials, will be between Jan. 10 and the end of February, when food shortages are likely to be severest...
...would actually lead such a coup does not seem clear in anybody's mind: just an inchoate, presumably reactionary and authoritarian group referred to ominously as "they." Explained a driver: "There will be bread riots, and that will lead to a coup. And when the coup takes place, that will lead to civil war." But the real specter is chaos. Many of St. Petersburg's citizens fear that social and political instability caused by shortages will bring bloodshed. "When you see their faces," said a member of the city council with a sigh, "they are very tense, but that...
...word has it that 80 Iraqi military officers were executed for attempting a coup. Another day the rumor is that 76 Iraqis and Egyptians were put to death for mounting an anti-Saddam demonstration south of Baghdad. Still another day brings the story that former Iraqi Prime Minister Saadoun Hammadi and 24 high-ranking army officers were shot for a coup attempt...