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...suspect's return to Cambridge marks a coup for HUPD, which was angered by his probationary release after he pleaded guilty to five charges in connection with larcenies in the Yard...
Talk about living dangerously... As if firing Indonesia's most powerful military man amid rumors of a coup weren't risky enough, President Abdurrahman Wahid chose to do it by phone while on a two-week trip to Europe. The bad news for Wahid is that General Wiranto, disgraced by a government report this week that held him responsible for some of last year's violence in East Timor, doesn't appear to be going anywhere: He even attended a cabinet meeting Wednesday, in defiance of the President's orders. Although Wiranto had been removed from command of the armed...
...been some time since Latin America played host to a coup d'?tat. In fact, when Ecuadorian president Jamil Mahuad was ousted Friday, it was the first military coup in the region in more than a decade. And the early signs are that it was good timing. Ecuador, which has been plagued by economic and social unrest, and where medical services have been virtually nonexistent for the past three months, seemed calm in the days following the ascension of Vice President Gustavo Noboa Bejarano to the presidency - the country's fourth leader in six years...
...wearied by two weeks of hostile six-way debates and faced with a viable challenger in the form of John McCain, George W. Bush was forced to lean on the 11th Commandment of Republican campaigning - don't hurt the party. And thus Bush and McCain staged a minor p.r. coup, shaking hands on a negative campaigning embargo. "This is a way for George Bush to distinguish himself from the other candidates, by painting himself as a different kind of candidate from Steve Forbes," said TIME Washington correspondent James Carney...
Yeltsin's actions during the 1991 coup did much to bring democracy to Russia, but unfortunately, he has not lived up to such ideals since then. Plagued by ill health, Yeltsin's competence as a leader has long been suspect. Corruption, crime and economic malaise flourished in Russia over the last few years. A criminal investigation instigated by then-Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov in early 1999 did little to improve Yeltsin's image. Yeltsin, the first democratically elected Russian president, is better known for bravado than diplomacy. His abrupt moves marked a politician more concerned with his personal future than...