Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...diarist describes Gorbachev's ordeal during the August coup...
...office in New York, having previously confined himself to Paris, and lured a number of top models away from rival agencies. Six months ago, the Fords -- Eileen runs the business with her husband Jerry -- opened an office in Paris, headed by their daughter Katie. The Fords scored a major coup in July when they announced that Naomi Campbell would be represented by Ford for all her Paris work; Elite will continue to handle her New York assignments...
...options -- to hand my office over to ((Vice President Gennadi)) Yanayev and give the nod to the state of emergency, or to step down. They even tried to threaten me. I told them, 'You guys must have known I wouldn't agree to either. You're staging a coup d'etat. What you are trying to do with your committee is anticonstitutional and unlawful. This is adventurism that will result in bloodshed and civil war.' The general started trying to prove to me that they would see to it that such a thing wouldn't happen. I told him, 'Look...
...strong and handsome man, pleasing the eye, one of the pillars of the earth. "Mikhail Sergeyevich," he said, "it is high time we discussed what we do next. We will not let you fly on the ((presidential)) airplane they ((the plotters)) arrived on. ((It was still unclear whether the coup had been totally foiled, and they were wary of using the easily identifiable presidential plane.)) We will take my plane. It is parked on the same airfield but at a distance from yours. It is closely guarded. I brought along 40 lieutenant colonels, all of them armed. We will break...
...Gamsakhurdia, the republic's authoritarian president. About 60 rebel guardsmen were reported killed in a clash with republic troops . . . The seizure of power in Tadzhikistan by Rakhman Nabiev, a hard-line former Communist Party chief, prompted thousands of people to defy a newly imposed state of emergency. Crying "Communist coup!," protesters vowed to resist Nabiev's administration . . . Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement calling for a cease-fire and negotiations to end their dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan, but the fighting continued. Among those who helped broker the agreement was Boris Yeltsin. The Russian president...