Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grachev, whom Yeltsin appointed Defense Minister in 1992 over many generals with more experience, manages to hang on because of his loyalty to his patron. As commander of the Soviet Airborne troops during the attempted coup in 1991, he refused to storm the building where Yeltsin was holed up; in October 1993, when the leaders of Parliament dared to challenge Yeltsin in the streets, he sided with the President. According to people close to the President's office, Grachev even reminded Yeltsin after the October putsch: "Boris Nikolayevich, I have twice saved you." Officers have nicknamed the Defense Minister...
...style communist boss, turning his back on the democratic reformers he once championed and throwing in his lot with militarists and ultranationalists? Or was he a befuddled, out-of-touch chief being manipulated, knowingly or unwittingly, by -- well, by whom exactly? If there was to be a dictatorial coup, would Yeltsin be its victim or its leader...
...substantive pay hikes. Despite these moves, both investors and ordinary citizens were skeptical. In trading today, the peso weakened, slipping from 4.925 to close at 5.325 to the dollar. TIME Mexico City bureau chief Laura Lopez says Zedillo's success in bringing together labor and business is "a coup." Still, "people are a bit shocked that they're being asked to sacrifice so early in his administration," Lopez says. As one woman told her: "Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice -- we've been sacrificing already for years...
...already increasingly isolated and on the defensive against the tacit "red-brown" alliance of communists and ultranationalists. If democratic forces now become wholly estranged from the President, the odds increase that military factions disgruntled with Yeltsin's handling of the Chechen crisis might stage a long- predicted military coup, neatly disguised as a necessary crackdown to prosecute the war. But the army itself is also divided; some officers far higher in rank than Major Victor consider the invasion a piece of bloody foolishness...
...former Berlin waitress, the statuesque bottle-blond owes her success to the decision by the fashion industry that Valkyries sell clothes better than do waifs. In an impressive coup, she was on the September cover of both Vogue and Harper's Bazaar...