Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would have been a catastrophic mistake to provide large-scale assistance to the former Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. Dominated by communist hard-liners until the August 1991 coup, hostile to free elections and self- determination for the nations of the Soviet Union, and addicted to economic half measures, his government adopted reforms to strengthen the communist system, not to abandon it. With the final lowering of the red flag of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day, that situation changed decisively. The Soviet people finally achieved their deepest aspiration -- not reform under communism but reform without communism. Unfortunately, the West...
Much of that reluctance stems from those who overcommitted themselves to Gorbachev. Unlike Gorbachev, Yeltsin has met the conditions to qualify for aid. He led a genuine democratic revolution, winning the Russian presidency through free elections, standing heroically against the August coup, and supporting self-determination for the non-Russian nations. He has expressed a firm intention to resolve outstanding geopolitical issues in ways consistent with our interests. And with the freeing of most prices on Jan. 2, he has staked his political life on the rapid creation of a free-market economy in Russia...
...also proved to be a tricky test for the people who decide what mix of news CNN will beam to its global audience. As the network's impact has grown, those decisions have become more crucial. To the extent that the images CNN chooses to show -- Boris Yeltsin defying coup plotters or a reporter sifting through bomb damage in Baghdad -- are important in shaping people's attitudes and governments' policies, a handful of news executives in Atlanta are among the world's most influential journalists...
...President Lyndon B. Johnson. He has taken a hands-on approach to CNN in more ways than one. During the gulf war he brought cookies to bleary-eyed staffers working on the weekend. When ABC signed up Mikhail Gorbachev and Yeltsin for a joint interview after the failed coup, Johnson flew to Moscow and personally negotiated with them to do separate interviews on CNN first...
...unfulfilled promises. He spoke constantly of democracy but clung to the power and bureaucracy of the Communist Party, which he headed long after it had been revealed as the main obstacle to perestroika, his plan for restructuring. Even when the party resorted to violence against him in the aborted coup last August, Gorbachev publicly pledged his loyalty to it. That was the moment at which Yeltsin succeeded to Gorbachev's authority and pushed him to close down the party...