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Some countries, like China, have been known to mete out swift execution to < their political prisoners. Others, like Cuba, imprison them for decades. Indonesia has a uniquely cruel approach. As early as this week, the Jakarta government intends to execute six men for their alleged roles in a 1965 coup attempt -- after keeping them behind bars for anywhere from 18 to 24 years. In February four other purported conspirators were sent before the firing squad. Those killings prompted a burst of protest from overseas, but despite the outcry the government is going ahead with its plan. According to a close...
...former chief intelligence and security officer of the Bureau of Customs, Bibit was being held on charges of attempting to overthrow the government during the failed December coup. "Today I am free again to continue our struggle for the cause of good government," said Bibit...
...such a battle, the raider, instead of trying to buy up a majority of the company's stock, holds a smaller stake and seeks to engineer a coup by enlisting the support of other stockholders. Unlike more routine shareholder proposals, which try to persuade management to change its stance on, say, investment in South Africa, the goal of a proxy fight is to urge stock owners to throw management out altogether. They may do so by casting their votes, in the form of variously hued proxy cards, for the dissident raider and his own roster of director nominees, who promise...
Western Sovietologists warn against assuming that discontent within the military means that a coup is in the offing. There is no example of Bonapartism in Russian history, and the Soviet army has always been firmly under civilian control. "A lot of military people are distressed," says retired U.S. General William Odom, former chief of the National Security Agency who is now at the Hudson Institute, "but it would be a mistake to see the friction as evidence of coup thinking." In any case, he says, the brass is snapping back at its civilian critics with Gorbachev's permission, in order...
Stephen Meyer, a Soviet expert at M.I.T., says flatly that the Soviet armed forces are "not capable of a coup." What is possible, he and other analysts suggest, is that the military might one day support a power shift in the Kremlin organized by civilians. It might then step in to support either a new, tougher defense policy forced from Gorbachev or a promising candidate to replace him. But first, says Meyer, the generals would have to "find a patron," because no such alternative is in sight...