Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PREDICTIONS WERE STARK AND frightening. Opponents of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide foresaw serious consequences if the radical priest, ousted in a September 1991 coup d'etat, ever returned to power: rivers of blood would flow through the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and dozens of the regime's opponents would perish in barbarous "necklaces" of burning tires. The poverty-stricken nation would become a Marxist enclave and an enemy of the U.S. So how to explain that a year after Aristide and the country's first democratically elected government were returned to power...
...REFERRED TO U.S. STATE DEPARTment official Richard Holbrooke's "diplomatic coup" in negotiating the Serbs' promise to withdraw their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo. I'm sorry, but it's hardly a "diplomatic coup" when you bomb the hell out of people and they finally do what you tell them to do. I'm absolutely not taking sides, but semantics can be dangerous. Remember back when the Vietnamese people were being "pacified"? DARRELL HORN Winnipeg, Manitoba...
...GREAT COUP FOR CHINA TO BE host of the women's conference. But the Chinese should have sought even greater credit. They should have refrained from ugly harassment and close surveillance of the participants and not restricted their speech and movement. In the future the U.N. should fully guarantee such basic rights in a host country before it is chosen as a conference site. TENZIN YANGDAK Mont Pelerin, Switzerland...
Neither his admirers nor his detractors were surprised by Holbrooke's diplomatic coup. In terms both camps could embrace, a State Department colleague says, "Dick is very abrasive and arrogant, but he is also a brilliant conceptualizer and tactician." Those qualities characterize Holbrooke's career both in and out of government and have often embroiled him in controversy. As a young Foreign Service officer in Vietnam, Holbrooke attracted the attention of ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge and later of Averell Harriman, on whose staff he served at the Paris peace talks. Says U.S. Ambassador to India Frank Wisner...
...Lewis acquired food giant TLC Beatrice International in a $985 million leveraged buyout. The coup made Beatrice the largest black-owned business in the country, with Lewis at the helm...