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...does not intervene purely for reasons of morality. If it did, it would spend itself dry righting every wrong in the world. Nor does it act purely out of self-interest. If, for example, a genuine pro-Iraqi coup had led Kuwaitis to join voluntarily with Iraq, the U.S. would hardly have gone to war to reverse that action. (During the oil shocks of the 1970s, suggestions that the U.S. seize the oil fields of Arabia were never even taken seriously...
...weeks, veteran observers of Thai politics confidently predicted that a military coup was unlikely, despite escalating tensions between the army and the elected government of Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan. That seemed a reasonable judgment -- until the tanks began to roll. Just before noon last Saturday, the army staged an apparently bloodless coup. The military arrested the top leaders of the government, including the Prime Minister; imposed martial law; and suspended the 1978 constitution. The leader of the junta, General Sunthorn Kongsompong, 59, announced the takeover on state television and radio, proclaiming, "We are in control of everything...
...prospect of a still powerful Iraq would be far less worrisome if Saddam were not at the helm. His continuation in power would be a great disappointment to the allies. It is conceivable that a surrender, however artfully packaged, would leave Saddam vulnerable to a coup. The euphoria in Baghdad that initially greeted reports of the pullout offer suggests a high level of public anxiety over the war. To have been subjected to such horrific bombings and wind up with nothing to show for it might be too much for some Iraqis. But the decisive question is whether it would...
...Assad had nearly 1000 political prisoners machine-gunned in Damascus after a failed coup attempt. In 1982, he levelled the old quarter of the northern Syrian town of Hama, killing an estimated 20,000 civilians. This is how Assad deals with Syrians...
...fulminate against barbarian interlopers, Katz is candid about the waste, carelessness and openly tolerated thievery that made their raids possible. The TV business, he says, was not businesslike. Third, Katz does not exploit the melodrama of the takeover. He largely ignores the boardroom fighting and has the actual bloodless coup take place off-page. His real subject is what work means, whether to a honcho or to a coffee-cart handler -- how a job becomes an identity, so that losing it forces a person not only to plan a future but also to re-evaluate the past. Job cuts...