Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sniper bullet that wounded a Congressman five days later have added to the instability. "Whoever is behind all this wants to provoke a state of emergency," says government investigator Claudio Porres. "They want us to return to a dark past when everything was resolved through a military coup." President Ramiro de Leon Carpio stepped back from declaring a state of emergency but promised to take severe measures to ensure security...
...Yeltsin discusses security and coup rumors with the head of counterintelligence...
...Personally, he reaped $193 million in stock from the deal, and while, technically, Time was acquiring Warner, and Ross and Time chief Nick Nicholas were to be co-CEOs, Ross quietly maneuvered himself into supremacy by dazzling the board with promises of a rich future. He then orchestrated a coup in which the directors ousted Nicholas...
...nightmare may be less likely than the first, it is the one that most experts are concerned about. Example: a major U.S. bank that deals in derivatives thinks it has covered all its bets around the world. But an unforeseen event, such as an earthquake in Tokyo or a coup in Latin America, sends markets crashing in some area. The bank's finely tuned hedging strategy is thrown off balance, and it has no choice but to default on its contracts. A whole chain of interlocking obligations snaps, setting off a series of uncontainable defaults that shake the world financial...
Tuesday: In a far-ranging press conference, he offered to "host the white population" of South Africa because "in autumn massacre will begin"; said "Latvia will be fully incorporated into Russia"; and called charges that conspirators were planning a coup to install him in the Kremlin "absolutely right." He also admitted "one small hobby": "I do not breed fish or collect stamps. But I have that special thing for border posts let us move those posts out to their old places." Friday: A Russian newspaper reported that a group of Freemasons had kidnapped Zhirinovsky and hacked off his tongue...