Word: coupe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, the Constitutional Court opened hearings into the history of communist rule and Yeltsin's ban of the party after the coup d'etat of August 1991. As General Secretary of the party for its last six years, Gorbachev was naturally called to testify. He refused, saying he would not participate in a "political" trial, "even if I am brought to the court in handcuffs." In < retaliation, the Russian authorities have threatened to evict him from his institute and yanked his passport. Only when the Germans protested his treatment was he permitted to go to the Brandt funeral...
Gorbachev has reason to be wary of the court. Die-hard communists have been taking the stand to argue for lifting the ban on the party; some are clearly bent on implicating Gorbachev in the failed coup...
Bush's lack of moral scruples in foreign policy became clear with his management of two events in particular: the Tiananmen Square massacre and the coup in Haiti...
After the coup in Haiti which deposed a democratically elected leader, Haitians streamed out of the island nation, many of them facing possible political persecution. Most came to the U.S. in search of asylum. Bush turned them away...
...Yugoslavia is also one of appeasement. The CIA warned Bush in 1990 that the nation would split apart. Yet Bush adhered to the status quo, never altering policy to fit the reality of the impending breakup--the same policy Bush pursued in the former Soviet Union until the failed coup forced a change. The U.S. was dangerously silent on Yugoslavia, allowing the Serbs and the communist government to go ahead with plans to keep the country together--even if it meant bloodshed...