Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yeltsin finally laid his claim to power on the line. In a prime-time television address Tuesday evening, he announced he was disbanding the legislature, even if it meant violating the constitution, and called new parliamentary elections for December. Angry Deputies quickly denounced Yeltsin's move as a coup d'etat and set up their own government, led by Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, Yeltsin's most implacable enemy. Suddenly, the most serious political crisis since the failed attempt to re-establish communist hegemony in August 1991 had engulfed Moscow...
Yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of the military coup that ousted Aristide's government and has forced many Haitians into hiding. Others have been forced to seek refuge in the U.S. from what demonstrators called a "campaign of terror...
Chants of Aristide's name filled the ears of all plaza passers-by for nearly three hours as demonstrators exhorted President Clinton to help Haiti attain peace. While the U.N. accord offers amnesty for the military leaders who staged the coup, the demonstrators demanded retribution...
That relentless will to survive and conquer has now led Redstone, 70, the chairman of MTV-owner Viacom Inc., to launch what could be the business coup of a lifetime. At an age when most executives are thinking country clubs and conferences, Redstone last week engineered an $8.2 billion offer to acquire Paramount Communications for $69.14 a share in cash and stock and thereby create one of the world's media giants.Since Redstone would hold 70% of the voting stock of the combined company, he would have majority control of more movies, books and television shows than any other media...
...Minister, Robert Malval, reinstated Port-au-Prince's mayor, Evans Paul, despite threats by armed goons, among them civilian police auxiliaries, that they would kill both men if the mayor tried to recover his old job. Paul was ousted along with President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a 1991 military coup. After the mayor's return,the thugs who had seized city hall killed six Aristide supporters. Days later, businessman Antoine Izmery was dragged out of Mass and executed. Aristide is expected to return to power next month...