Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jong Il's power is threatened, it is more likely to be by a palace coup than by popular rebellion. One rival power center could be the million- man armed forces, commanded by Defense Minister O Jin U. Other potential rebels might be ambitious members of Kim's own family: his stepmother Kim Song Ae; his uncle, Vice President Kim Yong Ju; or his half brother Kim Pyong...
...series of deadly clashes with the Hutu forced the Tutsi-dominated government gradually to share power, even permitting election of the country's first Hutu President, Melchior Ndadaye, in June 1993. That process came to an abrupt halt in October when Ndadaye was murdered in a failed coup by renegade Tutsi troops, who feared the Hutu were grabbing too many civilian jobs and military posts for themselves. In a wave of ensuing reprisals, 100,000 Burundians were killed and 500,000 left their homes to gather in safer encampments. The country's interim President, also a Hutu, died with Rwanda...
...caretaker leader Sylvestre Ntibantunganya attempts to placate the Tutsi opposition and restless army, his perceived weakness has encouraged violence from extremists on both sides. Since the failed coup, neighborhoods in Bujumbura have split into ethnic enclaves where residents are forced to travel through enemy territory to go to work or shop. Buses had to be hired to move people around safely. Ethnic violence this month alone has left nearly 20 dead, including a United Nations staff member...
...Soviet Coup Plotter Acquitted...
...much hope of bringing many Republicans on board. But while they have enough votes to stop any bill through a filibuster, that's a tactic that minority leader Dole is reluctant to use. He fears it will anger voters who want a vote on health care, not a procedural coup de grace. As G.O.P. pollster Bill McInturff warns, if reform dies on the floor, "Republicans have to be careful to keep our fingerprints off the murder weapon." The real threat to the Mitchell plan comes from Democrats and their supporters on both left and right. Clinton's endorsement horrified House...