Word: coupes
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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...
...COMMUNISTS. Following the failed coup last August, Yeltsin punished the Communist Party by banning it on Russian territory and confiscating its vast property. Nine new groups claim to be the party's heir. Their leaders are generally little-known former functionaries or true believers; they draw much of their support from party bureaucrats who have lost their status, privileges and often their jobs. The new communist parties have also found allies in trade-union officials who fear that market reform will lead to factory closures and mass unemployment...
...poor housing and uncertainty brought on by the disintegration of the union. The army remains a powerful wild card. While Marshal Yevgeni Shaposhnikov, military commander of the new Commonwealth of Independent States, has assured both Yeltsin and the West that the army will not take part in any coup, some officers have suggested that they should take the initiative to "save" the country. Aware of the threat, Yeltsin has heeded the complaints: in January he raised officers' salaries...
Deng, purged twice during the Cultural Revolution, was finally returned to power in what Salisbury calls a military coup. One of the most powerful old marshals, Ye Jianying, brought his army colleagues together and decided that when Mao died, they would arrest Jiang and her cohort. Kang died of cancer in December 1975, and Zhou a month later. When Mao finally died at 82 in September 1976, Ye clapped the venomous widow into prison and summoned Deng from his rural exile...
...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...