Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longer clear what authority Gorbachev has to enter into international agreements, or even what the constitutional procedure is for ratifying the strategic-arms- reduction treaty the two Presidents signed last July. That was barely three months ago, but it was, as they say in Moscow, B.C. -- before the coup. Since then, with the rapid disintegration of the U.S.S.R., the very term Soviet leader has become something of an oxymoron. So has Soviet Union...
...symbolic. In 1981, when gun-toting, right-wing officers seized parliament and held it hostage, King Juan Carlos went on Spanish television in full uniform and used his royal prestige to rally the army around the constitution. Boris Yeltsin isn't the only living leader to have quashed a coup...
...hasn't history borne him out? Even after six years of remarkable change, the fragility of communism after the August coup attempt surprised nearly everyone. Meanwhile in Washington, the hearings on Robert Gates for CIA director exposed the mechanisms that produced inordinate fear...
...displayed "three souls": those of a populist, a democratic reformer and an elitist from the old nomenklatura of the Communist Party bureaucracy. The democratic reformer became the first popularly elected leader in Russian history in June; and the populist shortly after stood on a tank to defy the coup; but lately the elitist has been in evidence. Yeltsin has appointed namestniki -- in effect, governors -- to administer regions and localities in his name, under powers ceded him by the Russian parliament last August...
...predict that he will yet come up with a strong and effective stabilization program, maybe even this week when the Russian congress of people's deputies begins to meet. He had better not wait much longer; there are signs that traditionalist forces, which had been quiescent since the failed coup, are reviving. Official trade unions, which were bastions of the communist regime, rallied 50,000 people in Moscow last week to protest falling living standards. $ Their placards carried a warning Yeltsin and his allies cannot afford to ignore: HEY YOU IN CHARGE, STOP ALL THE EMPTY WORDS. WE'RE TIRED...