Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keeping the squeeze on Iraq, the U.S. should stop playing coy with potential coup leaders. It should say explicitly that sanctions and no-fly rules will stay in force until the powers that be in Baghdad, whoever they are, behave in a civilized fashion toward their subjects. Otherwise Saddam could end up having his revenge from beyond the grave on Kurds and coalition alike...
Debates still rage in Moscow about whether hard-liners might try another coup to restore something like the old communist regime. But the real question is, Why should they bother? Already, conservatives -- in a post-Soviet context, those who resist change in the old Kremlin ways -- have been staging a kind of "creeping coup." They have been worming their way into key positions in President Boris Yeltsin's administration and are beginning to bend policy toward continued, or even increased, state control of the economy. Crows Arkady Volsky, head of the anti-Yeltsin faction: "The policies of the reformist government...
Paul won the award for his courage despite government intimidation after the September 1991 coup in Haiti and for his reporting on local official corruption, the foundation said Tuesday...
Paul, a reporter with Radio Antilles Internationale in Haiti, was arrested and beaten during the coup, according to the foundation. He was released when a judge dismissed charges against him for lack of evidence. From our wire services...
...deliver a bit of treacle like "Love Letters" with strings and still be subversive is the ultimate coup. Am I Not Your Girl deserves a standing...