Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...October 1963, John F. Kennedy had to decide what to do about the war in Vietnam and, most urgently, whether to back a military coup in Saigon. Kennedy was, writes Richard Reeves, "quietly desperate about the contradictions and misinformation swirling around him. Perhaps half of what he was being told was wrong, but he did not know which half." As he had done before, he dispatched personal envoys -- this time Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor -- to size up the situation...
...first victim of Russia's military hardening, which actually preceded the showdown in Moscow, is the goal of an expanded NATO. The second may be the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE), one of the most important arms- reduction agreements of the past decade. "In the coup of August 1991, the military played a minor role," says Archie Brown, director of Oxford University's Russian and Eastern European Center. "This time its role was crucial. It wants its price, which means that Russia will not be as democratic as we expected. It also means that the Foreign Ministry...
Three years into the country's heart-wrenching drive to reinvent itself -- and hours after a hard-line coup attempt -- Russians found themselves last week swapping expressions of political drift. "It could have been worse," has long been a favorite conversation clincher among Russians. Last week it was also true. If the rampaging gangs of fascists, communists and nationalists had managed to take over in the Kremlin, the world would be staring at them, fearful about the guns they were so willing to use and about the immense nuclear arsenal at their disposal...
...Little did he realize that his sixth-floor flat, on the opposite side of the Moscow River from the White House, now Russia's parliament building, would provide a window on history -- not once but twice. In 1991 Kohan watched reformers, led by Boris Yeltsin, defy a communist-led coup from barricades in front of the 19-story White House. Last week, camped out overnight in his living room the better to keep an eye on the building once again, Kohan was awakened by the rumble of tanks. "This time the building was being attacked by troops loyal to Yeltsin...
...year. The intervening 18 months have taxed the talents of the consummate diplomat with a series of crippling crises: economic collapse, political chicanery, ethnic rebellion and even a guerrilla-style insurgency waged by the country's former President, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, whose lust for power remains undampened by the popular coup that deposed him nearly two years ago. The revolt in Abkhazia, where a small minority of ethnic separatists want an independent state, has put the fate of Georgia on the line. In Sukhumi, where he has set up headquarters, Shevardnadze has vowed to keep his nation whole or die trying...