Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disagreement. The pastoral and the political came together in Cuba last week just the way the missionary of Christian faith and the apostle of communism had planned. But as the two pursued their own agendas, each had to be disappointed that the historic visit intended as a public relations coup was upstaged in the U.S. by the Clinton sex scandal...
...another Crimson coup, political editor Michael W. Hirschorn '86 called the victory of Gary Hart over Mondale in the 1984 New Hampshire primary...
...both visit Jakarta and other Asian capitals this week, along with a senior IMF delegation. If Suharto falls into line, the IMF could accelerate the release of $3 billion in additional funds. And if he doesn't? The market slide seems sure to continue, and rumors of a military coup, already rife in Jakarta, could move a step closer to reality...
...doomsaying pick of this week has to be The Year of Living Dangerously (1983). Mel Gibson watches Indonesian President Suharto's bloody rise to power; millions killed in military coup. Today, it's still Suharto, it's still a military dictatorship, and with the IMF reforms (and Suharto's reluctance to impose them) making everybody nervous, the generals are still crazy after all these years. Eeesh...
Suharto's Fantasy Island TIME magazine reports that President Clinton, in a personal phone call to Indonsia?s President Suharto, demanded that the aging strongman implement IMF reforms. Economic chaos in the Asian nation could lead to a military coup...