Word: coupes
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...different man who received TIME for the magazine's third interview in five years. Gorbachev had clearly decided to use the session to counteract the widespread impression that his presidency was mortally wounded by what several of his advisers had earlier in the week called the "second coup...
...indispensable man, the only figure on the political stage who can avert civil war, who can keep the army under control, who can bring Slavs and Muslims together, who can prevent the hungry, angry, impatient populace from pouring into the streets and providing a pretext for another rightist coup...
...there a danger of another coup...
...responsibility to see that this doesn't happen. I think a military coup is out of the question. Neither I nor Yeltsin nor the democrats would resort to this. It is just not acceptable...
Since the failed coup in August, the country has been writhing in a last agony that, in the words of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, seemed to drag on "through some sort of sick eternity." Finally Yeltsin and the Presidents of Ukraine and Belorussia -- founding republics of the old union in 1922 and still its Slavic core -- decided to sign a death certificate: "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality, is ceasing its existence...