Word: coups
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Armed with an economics degree, Museveni returned to Kampala in 1970 to serve in the government of Prime Minister Milton Obote, only to flee back to Tanzania when Idi Amin staged a coup a year later. He taught economics while building a guerrilla force among the exiles that eventually joined the Tanzanian army to oust the homicidal Amin in 1979. When Museveni ran for President in 1980, he was humiliated in an election he claims was fraudulent, which put the ruthless Obote back in charge. Museveni took to the bush...
...medical treatment in China. But while the monarch has in the past been a force for reconciliation in the country, he's not likely to be able to do much this time around, with Hun Sen ? the man who deposed his son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, in a bloody coup ? still firmly in charge...
MOSCOW: Desperate to show that Russia stands behind the wobbly Mir, the Kremlin has at last hit on a sure-fire PR coup: They're blasting Boris Yeltsin's trusty military advisor into space. Yuri Baturin, secretary of the Defense Council and high-profile cheerleader for the country's troubled space program, will make the trip to Mir some time next year for a stay of unspecified duration. And, by all accounts, he's raring to go. The physically fit, 48-year-old Baturin has already performed a few "aerobatic maneuvers" on a supersonic SU-30 fighter and has undergone...
...fall of the Berlin Wall, got none of the breaks of his predecessor. Erich Honecker, the quintessential hardliner who ruled East Germany for 18 years, was judged too ill to stand trial, went into dignified exile in Chile, and died there in 1994. Spymaster Markus Wolf scored a similar coup, convincing a constitutional court to overturn a treason conviction and leave him free to pen a best-selling memoir. Until today's conviction, responsibility for the killings had fallen to border guards and military officials...
...time is now; the turf is the Web; and the enemy is Netscape, whose browser market share still dwarfs Microsoft's. The Apple deal makes Microsoft's Internet Explorer the default browser for all future Macs, yet another coup for Gates, who is painfully aware what a threat the Web poses to the OS standards whose implacable rigidity led to Microsoft's rise in the first place. Gates spent the Web's first two years pretending it didn't matter and the next two frantically refocusing his company on the Net and snapping up anything that might further that goal...