Word: coups
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
MICHAEL DUFFY scores a small coup this week with a behind-the-scenes story from the presidential campaign. He describes how Bob Dole, pressured by House Speaker Newt Gingrich, missed a crucial opportunity to blunt one of the Democrats' favorite wedge issues, gun control, first dropping his plan to promise a repeal of the unpopular assault-weapons ban, then changing his mind again, but too late to reap the political reward. "I wanted to autopsy one moment in a very difficult time for Dole," says Duffy, TIME's national political correspondent. "You get the feeling he believes this campaign doesn...
...says. "People are starving to death in this enormous prison state. The only way out of the country is to drive 12 hours across the desert to Jordan. And Saddam keeps a hangman on duty 24 hours a day." Marlowe also cautions that there are at least three reported coup attempts each year, many of which are unfounded rumors floated by Saddam's enemies to create an air of instability. "We try to take these reports with a grain of salt. The Iraqi dissidents have a vested interest in getting word out that the country is destabilizing," she says...
Starr's major coup last week was to get Washington to tear itself away from the fang baring on Capitol Hill and take note of the opening of the second Whitewater trial in Little Rock, Arkansas. Herby Branscum Jr. and Robert Hill, joint owners of a bank in microscopic Perryville, Arkansas (pop. 1,141), are charged with illegally channeling funds to Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign. The two men allegedly failed to notify the irs that they let Clinton's campaign withdraw $30,000 at one time--banks must report any cash transaction over $10,000--by disguising the withdrawal...
...Prime Minister of Greece; in Athens. He was democrat and demagogue, a man whose doctrinaire ideology and fist-in-the-air oratory could just as often inflame an audience as inform it. Once a U.S. citizen, he parlayed a virulent anti-Americanism to power, delayed only by a military coup that imprisoned, then exiled him. He became Prime Minister in 1984 and, except for a hiatus caused by financial scandal, and despite resigning in January due to illness, was the central political figure of Greece until his death...
...buys the myth that Yeltsin is a reformer and a democrat. But face it, he was never the initiator of democratic reforms in Russia. On the contrary, he relies heavily on the old apparatus. Yeltsin made a party career under Leonid Brezhnev, attempted a power grab in a military coup and finally was able to establish himself as a semi-dictator. Since then he has started a war with Chechnya and dismissed all its critics. Yeltsin is responsible for the continued killing of thousands of civilians, including children. Is this the democrat the West wants? A shift of power...