Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Following a military coup in which Burundi's President was assassinated, tribal fighting has killed thousands. After the Oct. 21 slaying of President Melchior Ndadaye and four top aides, the army briefly seized power, but no group has taken firm control of the African country...
...appoint an interim President. Caputo insisted that the U.N. plan "remains fully in force." He added that representatives of Aristide and the military would soon be invited to meet in Haiti to continue discussing plans for the ousted President's return and an amnesty for the 1991 coup leaders...
...Korea's first civilian president since General Park Chung Hee staged a coup in 1961 and established military authoritarian rule, has issued a sweeping rebuke of the practice of naemul since taking office earlier this year. In a cascade of reform legislation, Kim has attempted to put the practice of naemul out of commission for good...
...Clinton prefers a political settlement to a military one.If the Haitian military and civilian elite cannot be broken, they will have to be drawn into a deal. So when economic sanctions begin to squeeze, the U.S. is bound to increase its pressure on Aristide to compromise and make the coup leaders an offer...
...time," says Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the exiled President, and late-night disappearances are becoming common. Foreigners can flee at will, and many are doing so, including those charged with monitoring human-rights violations, but the thousands of Haitians who have been systematically repressed since the 1991 military coup are stuck. No matter, says the President who ran on a platform of putting people first -- including, not incidentally, the Haitian asylum seekers whom Clinton promised he wouldn't return "until some shred of democracy is restored there." No, says the President, affirming his postelection policy of forced repatriation, "We still believe...