Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of the nation's 31 Republican governors will meet in New Orleans this week to chew over the election results, install Oklahoma?s Frank Keating as their new leader and discuss a possible coup. The target is Jim Nicholson, the GOP party chairman who many Republicans say shares the blame for making a hash of the recent elections and for being, looking and sounding too conservative in general. Several of the governors, including Michigan's John Engler, have said in public that it?s time for Nicholson to pack his bags. Following the model used by the Democrats...
...score one for tree huggers turned fire bombers: the lynx is no longer a forgotten feline. But aside from that meager p.r. coup, the group committed as much an act of self-destructive futility as of terrorism; the fires didn't halt Category III, which Vail Resorts said would proceed more or less on schedule. The blazes won't even delay the start of the ski season...
Lastly, I laughed out loud when you claimed that the Russian people "won" the Cold War by utilizing "Marxist theory." If anything, they were victims of it. By risking their lives during the protests against the Communist coup members, the Russian people were rejecting Marxism in practice. They were tired of religious oppression, of the arrogant, elitist Communist party and of the specter of the return of Stalinism...
...Chile almost half the citizenry still revere Pinochet as a strong leader who saved the nation from economic and political collapse after his bloody U.S.-backed 1973 coup, in which leftist President Salvador Allende was killed. Since becoming a Senator, he has tried to project a more benign, grandfatherly image. But in countries like the U.S., where Pinochet assassins executed one of his exiled opponents in 1976, he's unlikely to get much sympathy. "The international community is sending a very positive signal for democracy and human rights," says Palma. Retired Chilean army General Luis Cortes Villa, head...
...invasion, no diplomatic crisis, no external threat that brought down the Soviet Union). The Russian people won it, with Marxist theory. It was ordinary Russian citizens along with renegade Russian soldiers who surrounded Boris Yeltsin on a hijacked tank in front of the Bely Dom during the August coup seven years ago. The many on the bottom of Soviet society refused to be fooled any longer into supporting...