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...think this is an academic coup d’etat engineered by the hard left and stimulated by Summers’ politically-incorrect statements, but then joined by an assortment of others—including some who had been dismissed and disempowered by Summers, some who didn’t like his style, and a few well-intentioned people who didn’t understand the damage they were doing to the University,” Dershowitz said yesterday...
...paramilitaries for a 1994 massacre of more than 20 people. And his response to the crowds this week has been significantly more statesmanlike than that of his predecessor Jean Bertrand Aristide. In 1990, shortly after Aristide was elected but before he took office his supporters had blocked an attempted coup d'etat, but then went on a rampage, burning buildings and attacking anti-Aristide leaders. Aristide's response was not to tell his supporters to go home; instead he said he was just the president-elect and had no authority. Preval, on the other hand, asked the crowds this week...
...paramilitaries for a 1994 massacre of more than 20 people. And his response to the crowds this week has been significantly more statesmanlike than that of his predecessor Jean Bertrand Aristide. In 1990, shortly after Aristide was elected but before he took office his supporters had blocked an attempted coup d'etat, but then went on a rampage, burning buildings and attacking anti-Aristide leaders. Aristide's response was not to tell his supporters to go home; instead he said he was just the president-elect and had no authority. Preval, on the other hand, asked the crowds this week...
...Administration - whose feelings for Chavez are certainly mutual - has struggled to answer ever since Venezuela initiated the Citgo program last November. While the heating oil gesture has certainly allowed Chavez to tweak Bush?s nose, it is also being recognized inside and outside of Washington as a public relations coup for Chavez?s Bolivarian Revolution (named for South America?s 19th-century independence hero, Simon Bolivar...
...heating oil project?s biggest diplomatic coup, Alvarez concedes, may be the good will it generates among Americans at a time of deteriorating U.S.-Venezuela relations - strained ever since the Bush Administration was widely accused of backing a failed 2002 coup against Chavez (a charge it denies). Chavez, who has been democratically elected twice and is almost certain to win reelection this year, is convinced the U.S. is out to assassinate him or invade Venezuela for its oil; the White House, concerned about a growing wave of leftist victories in Latin American presidential elections, insists Chavez is a would...