Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soros has the golden touch. But unlike the miser of mythology, he is happy to part with his wealth. A latter-day Robin Hood, he takes from the exchequers and pockets of the rich West in order to provide much needed capital for the poor East. After the sterling coup, Soros wasted no time in redistributing the spoils: within the next three months he set up a $100 million fund to support science in the former Soviet Union, organized a $25 million loan to Macedonia and then made the largest single private donation ever to a humanitarian cause when...
...brain maker. Part of Intel's success has been its ability to stay a step ahead of the chip manufacturers making cheaper versions of Intel's high- performance product line. One of these is Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), based in nearby Sunnyvale, which has just scored a coup in the constantly changing world of chip competition: a judge overturned a jury verdict that AMD did not have the right to sell a clone of Intel's popular 486 chip. Naturally, AMD said it would immediately begin selling its own 486 chips...
...long-awaited trial of 12 plotters accused of staging the ill-fated coup finally began in Moscow last week. The group's defense will be that its bid for power was not an act of treason but rather a patriotic effort to prevent the breakup of the U.S.S.R. While many Russians appear ready to believe them -- or at least pardon them -- the defendants could be sentenced to death if found guilty. In Russia that means a bullet to the back of the head -- an unfunny finale to one of history's most riveting farces...
Similarly, Shea says the outcome of the abortive 1991 coup attempt in the Soviet Union was a foregone conclusion--because the star chart of the Communist regime showed hardliners were not destined to return...
...outright, and that's good. Thank God for that. We don't need victors in this situation. ON THE NEXT STEP: Early elections are what our democracy needs now. As early as May. New elections will bring in some very good people, some new forces. ON THE COUP THREAT: We have a different kind of society now. Those who shout that the President should firmly adhere to the constitution would fully unmask themselves if they tried to do something unconstitutional while he was away. So I think there's no problem in Yeltsin's coming to Vancouver. ON U.S. SUPPORT...