Word: coups
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...Ankara, on whether to ban the AKP for anti-secularist activities. Separately, a court last week agreed to take up an indictment against 86 people - including military officers, journalists and senior businessmen - accused of high-profile political killings, extortion and violence designed to foment unrest and justify a military coup...
Yeltsin Visits Japan President Boris Yeltsin made an uneventful visit to Tokyo for two days and met with Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa. By leaving Russia just one week after he suppressed the coup by retrograde parliamentarians, he flaunted his confidence that he was in control...
NORODOM SIHANOUK King of Cambodia Wilderness years: 1970 to last month Reason for losing office: Overthrown in a right-wing coup by forces friendly...
...until Aristide nominated their successors and they were confirmed by the Haitian Senate. Parliamentary confirmation has a nice, American ring to it, but Haiti's Senate is not its U.S. counterpart. ''They fear for their lives, and quite reasonably so,'' says an American diplomat. ''Since the coup, they've done only what Cedras and Francois dictate.'' Under Cedras' scheme, the Senate could reject numerous nominations before agreeing to people he and Francois find acceptable. Once again, Aristide would be a figurehead, a symbol the world could toast as Haiti's real power was held by goons. Having heard nothing...
...perhaps the television coup of the season. Live on the Phil Donahue show last Tuesday, a call was placed to Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids. Looking on were Donahue's guests for the day: the parents of a California infant known as Baby Jesse, who desperately needed a heart transplant. A spokeswoman for the hospital got on the line and was persuaded to reveal the impossibly good news: ''We are donating a heart to the baby,'' she declared. The cameras closed in on Jesse's stunned parents as they broke into cries of joy, smiles and tears. The audience went...