Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...psychic to tell him that he was under attack last week. No sooner had the Russian President left Moscow on another of his notorious unannounced holidays -- this time to the Black Sea resort of Sochi -- than rumors filled the capital that his parlous state of health had inspired a coup plot. The crisis evaporated when the Kremlin launched a propaganda blitz to demonstrate that, at least for the moment, Yeltsin was still in command of his faculties. But the larger question of whether the Russian leader is in command of the country remains wide open...
...latest alarm was set off by a "confidential" document published in a Moscow paper supposedly describing a plot to depose Yeltsin by three prominent officials: Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets, Chief of the General Staff Mikhail Kolesnikov and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. According to the memo, the coup would kick off in March or April with a television broadcast documenting Yeltsin's health problems and excessive drinking. The dramatic revelations would give parliament a pretext to remove the President, replacing him with Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin until elections could be held...
Rumors of Yeltsin's drinking give Moscow a case of coup jitters...
...million -- mostly his own money -- and led a group of investors in buying the two companies from the banks. He then merged them, effectively taking control of one-third of the Swiss watch industry, including such famous brands as Omega, Longines, Blancpain, Tissot, Rado and Hamilton. But his big coup was figuring out that a product invented before his arrival could be the high-quality, low-price, plastic quartz watch that would challenge the Japanese at the lower end of the market. The $35-to-$40 Swatch, which reduced by half the usual number of parts by building them directly...
...stood to lose too much with the reintegration of Bop (Bophuthatswana's more colloquial name), becoming yet another insignificant ex-leader rather than remaining a big fish in a little pond. The South African government seems to have forgotten that five years ago they reinstated Mangope after a popular coup removed him from power...