Word: coups
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Western Sovietologists warn against assuming that discontent within the military means that a coup is in the offing. There is no example of Bonapartism in Russian history, and the Soviet army has always been firmly under civilian control. "A lot of military people are distressed," says retired U.S. General William Odom, former chief of the National Security Agency who is now at the Hudson Institute, "but it would be a mistake to see the friction as evidence of coup thinking." In any case, he says, the brass is snapping back at its civilian critics with Gorbachev's permission, in order...
Stephen Meyer, a Soviet expert at M.I.T., says flatly that the Soviet armed forces are "not capable of a coup." What is possible, he and other analysts suggest, is that the military might one day support a power shift in the Kremlin organized by civilians. It might then step in to support either a new, tougher defense policy forced from Gorbachev or a promising candidate to replace him. But first, says Meyer, the generals would have to "find a patron," because no such alternative is in sight...
...expanded powers that go along with it, were won by parliamentary, not popular, vote. But there was no denying the fact that almost five years to the day after he assumed the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party, Gorbachev had engineered nothing less than a coup d'etat, effectively ending his party's monopoly on power. Said he: "We all can feel the first real results of political change. A system of genuine people power is being created and the groundwork laid for building a country governed...
...eleven- year-old girl in the town of Petit-Goave. The next night, an angry mob burned an army outpost. By Friday the protests had spread across Haiti as thousands took to the streets demanding the resignation of Lieut. General Prosper Avril, who seized power in a 1988 coup. At least three people were killed in clashes with troops...
...refused admission to a man found guilty of gun theft. The angry district judge retaliated by detaining two of Ashe's deputies. Though a space for the prisoner later opened up in the county jail, Ashe told himself he had to stand up. Whether state courts will uphold his coup remains to be seen. But for the moment, Ashe had seized the better option available: take over the armory, instead of watching even more dangerous criminals go free...