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...Thousands of demobilized troops from Eastern Europe are stranded without adequate housing and benefits in shabby tent cities. Morale is at a nadir. "The military is absolutely shellshocked," says Dale Herspring of the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson Center. "Cohesion is so destroyed that they couldn't mount a coup even if some officers wanted...
Oliver Stone also has a story to tell -- about a dismal day in Dallas that changed American history. Last June, TIME criticized the plot of Stone's new movie, JFK -- out this week -- which argues that Jack Kennedy was felled in a carefully concealed coup d'etat. Stone said our comments were part of an Establishment cover-up (they were not). Finally we got together to discuss his views. "He came armed to the teeth with his research," says correspondent Martha Smilgis. "It still didn't convince me that there was a general conspiracy, but his movie gets you thinking...
...myth represents the true inner spiritual meaning of an event. I think the Warren Commission was a myth, and I think this movie, hopefully, if it's accepted by the public, will at least move people away from the Warren Commission and consider the possibility that there was a coup d'etat that removed President Kennedy...
...East German quickly found a friend: Clodomiro Almeyda, the Chilean ambassador to Moscow, who had been given refuge in East Germany following the $ bloody 1973 coup in Chile. Almeyda invited Honecker to stay in his embassy while he asked his government to give Honecker asylum. Then came Santiago's response...
...move marked the culmination of a stunning political metamorphosis. After August's aborted coup, Kravchuk, then chairman of the Ukrainian parliament, straddled the fence, neither endorsing nor categorically condemning the coup leaders until failure was no longer in doubt. In quick succession, he resigned from the Communist Party and anointed himself the main champion of statehood. His 11th-hour conversion coincided with the political awakening of a majority of the republic's 53 million citizens...