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Start packing the shoes -- Imelda Marcos is free to go home. For the past five years, the exiled wife of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos has been barred from her native land by President Corazon Aquino's coup-plagued regime. But last week Manila lifted the ban so it could begin criminal prosecution of Marcos, who under Philippine law must be present at her trial. The aim: to recover $350 million in allegedly ill-gotten wealth now frozen in Swiss bank accounts...
...envisions. Outraged by their commanders, who were among the first runners, several hundred lower-ranking military officers have protested the lack of accountability. They want the Chief of Staff and at least five other high-ranking officers fired. In many countries such discontent would produce rumors of an imminent coup. In Kuwait the disenchanted sent a polite letter up the chain of command, asking for an audience with the Prime Minister. Seven weeks later, they have still received no response, so most stay home passively and grow beards -- an officer corps on a genteel sit-down strike. "A coup...
...Sunday in Lithuania last January. Others believe in a linear theory: the breakup of the Soviet Empire and the transformation of the internal order have passed the point of no return, the keepers of the Stalinist flame are on their last legs, it is too late for a rightist coup; therefore Gorbachev's accommodations with the right accomplish nothing except to render him irrelevant...
...same official admits that the prospects of a coup remain low. According to intelligence reports, Saddam has executed 14 senior military officers in the past four weeks, possibly in response to an attempted coup. For now, though he is defeated militarily and surrounded on nearly all sides by enemies, Saddam is playing a skillful game. "It's quite a brilliant strategy," says Leonard S. Spector, a Carnegie Endowment proliferation expert. Saddam is "stubborn, steadfast, holding as much stuff back as possible and giving us enough to defuse a possible attack." Such deft maneuvering means Bush has a far larger problem...
...left of failing Pan Am, collecting the pioneering carrier's transatlantic routes serving Europe, Asia and Africa, its sprawling Frankfurt hub, its northeastern shuttle and other assets -- for just $260 million, about what the shuttle alone would have cost a year ago. Even as Delta was announcing its coup, United Airlines was circling over the remains, negotiating to buy Pan Am's extensive Latin American service to Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and other countries. If that sale is completed, Pan Am, which inaugurated international air service 64 years ago, will consist of little more than desks, computers and debts...