Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME: Do you think there will be a coup before the elections...
Zhirinovsky: ((Those who are now in power)) are afraid of elections. A part of these democratic forces realize they would lose and are trying to introduce a state of emergency and postpone elections for 10 years or so. There is a great possibility of a military coup in the next six months, and again, the Jews will have a say in it. One of the candidates for the head of the military regime is General Boris Gromov, a hero of the war in Afghanistan. His second wife is Jewish. When his first wife, who was Russian, died, this woman...
...into a fascination with antiquity. McNall even went so far as to enroll in the graduate program in ancient history at UCLA. But he did not stay long enough to learn how fate exacts a terrible price for hubris. Before long he was traveling the ancient trade routes, striking coup after coup. In 1974, when the record price for an ancient coin was about $100,000, he bought the rarest of them all, the 5th century B.C. Athena decadrachm, for a seemingly outlandish $420,000. But within the week he sold it for $470,000. That same year he opened...
...nothing strange in all this for an army that was harvesting sugar back in the 1970s. "The Cuban army is not a traditional Latin American army that lives in the barracks," says National Assembly president Ricardo Alarcon. Adds a Communist Party member: "You won't see a military coup in Cuba, but more generals will be taking off their uniforms to become technocrats...
...interviews, South Korean intelligence personnel always accompany the defectors, and there is no way to check the accuracy of their stories. Some tales do not even ring true. Last year army Lieut. Kim Young Seon told debriefers that he knew of a coup attempt against Kim Il Sung and a nuclear accident that had claimed hundreds of lives. Most experts agree that in highly secretive North Korea, no low-ranking officer could have access to such information. Other defectors reveal secrets that sound plausible. Ahn Myung Jon, a military infiltration expert, said he used his skills to cross the heavily...