Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I went on to Oxford, that was the time that I decided I wanted to join the diplomatic service, but when I went back to Pakistan, a coup took place within a week of my return, and that coup d'etat changed the course of my own destiny and took me into a field, that of politics, which I had never wanted to enter. Interestingly, everybody remembers that I am the first foreign women to become president of the Oxford Union, but nobody remembers that I'm the first female undergraduate of Harvard to become a chief executive...
...coup in Czechoslovakia puts the Communist Party into power in Prague...
...Habibie told the volatile general that promotions were up to the military, and left. Prabowo refused to go, departing only after an aide pretended Wiranto was on the phone. He came back the next day, this time with troops, and confronted Habibie, who again denied his request. Fearing a coup, security forces escorted Habibie to the adjoining palace and put him under heavy guard, while the army went on high alert. That night Wiranto stripped Prabowo of his command and reassigned him to head a military staff college...
...just taken a television from an electronics store in Jakarta's Tanah Abang district. "But we can't afford to buy anything anymore." The precedents were not good--the last time Indonesia went amok was in 1965: half a million people were killed after an abortive communist coup then-President Sukarno could not control. Suharto used the turmoil to maneuver himself into the leadership...
...TIME correspondent William Dowell points out that there is no easy resolution in Indonesia: While the army recognizes the need to replace Suharto, until an obvious successor emerges they?re forced to keep him in power. Dowell believes there will be no signs of a coup against Suharto until it?s a fait accompli: ?Anyone who telegraphs their intentions would be quickly eliminated, so it's not likely that there'll be any signs of a move against Suharto until it?s over.? At the same time, Dowell warns, ?Suharto is a brilliant politician and has all the instincts...