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...remains popular among peasants, who are still a majority of the population and provide most of the soldiers, and it has proved that it is ready to turn its guns on its own people, if necessary, to hang on to power. There is some fear now of another outright coup to keep the brass in control...
...back to the political past. The violence in the streets showed just how much the country has changed; until then, Bangkok was the last place anyone would have looked for riots and bloodshed. Since the fall of the absolute monarchy in 1932, the country has experienced 10 successful coups, a number of failed ones and 14 constitutions. But only occasionally did violence occur in the so-called Land of Smiles. An old joke is that when a coup is attempted, usually both sides drive all their tanks into the street and then stop to count. Whoever has the most wins...
...recently as February 1991, the country sat still for a bloodless military coup that overthrew a more-than-usually-corrupt elected civilian government. Corruption at least was the stated reason for the coup; the real motivation was that the army feared that this government, unlike most nominally headed by civilians, would actually try to shake loose from the soldiers' behind-the- scenes control...
...that there is a limit to such trips to the marketplace and that most of the money being raised is earmarked for G.M.'s financial obligations rather than new products and capital innovations. But investors are apparently hoping that a new management team assembled after last month's boardroom coup can turn fortunes around. If that happens, the betting is that G.M. can once again make money as fast as it has lost it since...
Although he talks as if he needs a visa to go inside the Beltway, Perot has dined at the White House, sailed on the presidential yacht Sequoia and lobbied the Oval Office, the Cabinet and Capitol Hill. In 1975, for example, he pulled off a coup most lobbyists only dream about. Late one night as the House Ways and Means Committee tied up the loose ends in that year's tax bill, then Democratic Congressman Phil Landrum of Georgia introduced an amendment that might have been the largest one-time tax break in history, granting Perot an unheard-of capital...