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...October 1963, John F. Kennedy had to decide what to do about the war in Vietnam and, most urgently, whether to back a military coup in Saigon. Kennedy was, writes Richard Reeves, "quietly desperate about the contradictions and misinformation swirling around him. Perhaps half of what he was being told was wrong, but he did not know which half." As he had done before, he dispatched personal envoys -- this time Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor -- to size up the situation...
...first victim of Russia's military hardening, which actually preceded the showdown in Moscow, is the goal of an expanded NATO. The second may be the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE), one of the most important arms- reduction agreements of the past decade. "In the coup of August 1991, the military played a minor role," says Archie Brown, director of Oxford University's Russian and Eastern European Center. "This time its role was crucial. It wants its price, which means that Russia will not be as democratic as we expected. It also means that the Foreign Ministry...
...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...
...year. The intervening 18 months have taxed the talents of the consummate diplomat with a series of crippling crises: economic collapse, political chicanery, ethnic rebellion and even a guerrilla-style insurgency waged by the country's former President, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, whose lust for power remains undampened by the popular coup that deposed him nearly two years ago. The revolt in Abkhazia, where a small minority of ethnic separatists want an independent state, has put the fate of Georgia on the line. In Sukhumi, where he has set up headquarters, Shevardnadze has vowed to keep his nation whole or die trying...
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...