Word: coupes
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DIED. DUONG VAN MINH, 86, Vietnamese general known as "Big Minh," who organized the 1963 coup to overthrow South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem; in Pasadena, Calif. Big Minh (so called in part for his 6-ft., 200-lb. size), believed to have ordered Diem's assassination--with two raised fingers of his right hand--went on to become the last President of South Vietnam...
...time for thinking it would end that way. The military had already drawn blood that year in the Baltics. Many of its leaders were horrified at the collapse of their super power. Vladimir Kryuchkov, chairman of the KGB and later to be the moving force in the August coup, had all but accused Gorbachev of high treason in a closed session of parliament. But still, the putsch fizzled. The first ominous lull turned quickly into a baffling loss of momentum. Soon after the events, the story leaked out that the putsch leadership was less a junta than...
...military have moved against the White House if someone had given the order? Some would have, I think. Not all, but enough to break the resistance. Ekho Moskvy, the outstanding news radio that the Putin administration has been doing its best to gut this past year, reported during the coup that some of the units moving into Moscow were in a very aggressive mood. As I heard this I was reminded of conversations a few months earlier, after the Vilnius killings. Then hospitable Airborne commanders based in Lithuania had remarked quietly over lunch that they could have "finished...
...Strangely enough, of course, the coup leaders' rather hazy plans sound like what Vladimir Putin is trying to achieve. A little more discipline, more state intervention in the economy, law and order. I sometimes wonder if that is why, when Putin wanted to carry out a small covert operation of his own - an intensive series of interviews that led to his campaign biography early last year - he chose a large high-walled brick building on the edge of the city. A strange choice, you would think: It was in the same venue, on August 17 1991, that the coup leaders...
...years ago, for the first time in my life, I felt that my esteemed fellow countrymen were not simply a mob, but had become a people. In standing up to the communist coup, they behaved like a people with great dignity, with a great desire for freedom. Unfortunately, that delusion also collapsed quite quickly...