Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worked as a movie executive. Selig used to be a car salesman. Somewhere between the fantasy of the first job and the reality of the second -- between a field of dreams and a parking lot full of lemons -- lies the future of baseball. It will take more than a coup to keep America's pastime from doddering past its time...
Marking the first anniversary of the aborted hard-line coup in Moscow, Yeltsin announced that he will begin by giving each of the country's 147.3 million people a share in the national wealth. "All residents of Russia," he said, "will get free of charge a check for 10,000 rubles." These vouchers -- worth about $62 at the current exchange rate, or more than $9 billion in all -- are to be issued on Oct. 1. They will entitle the recipient to buy stock in businesses the state owns...
...admired around the world for his role in ending the cold war, but Eduard Shevardnadze has had little success so far in bringing peace to his troubled homeland of Georgia. Since his return there last March, Shevardnadze has been beset by coup attempts, ethnic rebellions and acts of political terrorism. Seven days after the former Soviet Foreign Minister, now leader of Georgia's State Council, proclaimed a "manifesto" of reconciliation and released political prisoners, armed supporters of ousted President Zviad Gamsakhurdia struck again. They burst in on peace negotiations in the city of Zugdidi and abducted 12 officials...
...recent years, with a curious consistency, the scheduled indolence of August has been interrupted by the sound of gunfire -- in Kuwait, in the failed Moscow coup, in half a dozen hot spots. As he is wont to point out, George Bush is the man who receives the midnight phone calls when such crises erupt overseas and who has "the guts" to act. It is August, and there are two dangerous disasters blazing on the horizon. Yet Bush, the foreign policy President, is moving most cautiously to deal with them...
...pays bounties for tips on attack plans. So far the task force, which combines the efforts of the National Security Agency, the FBI and CIA, Interpol and other agencies, has been contacted by snitches in 60 nations and has paid more than $2 million in bounties. Its most dramatic coup: a tip during the Gulf War that Saddam's agents planned to attack a U.S. airline installation in Bangkok. Says a State Department official: "We were able to prevent an attack in which probably hundreds of lives would have been lost." Reward: $1 million...