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...what the people say." Ríos Montt, an Evangelical Christian, considers it his destiny to become President. After narrowly losing a suspect presidential election in 1974, he went on to topple Romeo Lucas García's depraved military dictatorship in 1982 - only to be ousted by another coup a year later. In 1988, retired from the military, Ríos Montt formed the frg as a foe of Guatemala's rigid and venal oligarchy - shrewdly casting himself as the kind of populist caudillo (strongman) that Latin voters still tend to favor. The Maya Indians' traditional quiet stoicism about...
...others," says Sutton. "In the smaller markets, we considered the trade-off between safety and access, and decided to close the service." That sounds more like a business decision than an ethical one - a point some Microsoft rivals are quick to make. "MSN had something of a p.r. coup," says Nadia Schofield of Freeserve, the U.K.'s leading Internet service provider, labeling the move "a commercial issue cloaked in moral issues." Other competitors, including AOL - which is part of the company that owns Time - welcomed the move toward better chat moderation. But neither it, nor Germany's T-Online, Europe...
...Stability's Sake GUINEA-BISSAU Three days after being ousted in a bloodless military putsch, President Kumba Yala formally resigned his post. Coup leader General Verissimo Correia Seabra accused Yala of causing "political instability" in the impoverished former Portuguese colony in West Africa. Seabra promised to cede power to a transitional government that would oversee elections. Yala, who remained under house arrest, dissolved parliament in November and canceled polls four times...
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo had to cut short a visit to Brunei last week because her government discovered?and quashed?another coup attempt. According to her military Chief of Staff, generals were being offered $180,000 to help bring down the government and grunts $900. On her arrival back in Manila, Arroyo saluted a troop of assembled soldiers and described the threats against her as "futile." Blaring in the background was Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive...
...plot's aftermath is roiling the strife-torn west African nation. Scores of Ivorians - including senior members of the country's military and police forces - were arrested last week in the commercial capital, Abidjan, after France said it had apprehended a group preparing to leave Paris to stage a coup against Gbagbo. The band of eight French and Ivorian nationals was led by Ibrahim Coulibaly - a renegade Ivory Coast army soldier who spearheaded a successful 1999 putsch, and was involved in a rebellion last September that plunged the country into civil war. Since January, a French-brokered peace accord...