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...ARRESTED. CHHUN YASITH, 48, Cambodian-American accountant and leader of the U.S.-based Cambodian Freedom Fighters; on federal charges of conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and engaging in a military expedition against a friendly nation, for allegedly orchestrating a failed 2000 coup against Cambodian leader Hun Sen; in Long Beach, California. In the attack, code named Operation Volcano, some 70 rebels unsuccessfully stormed government buildings in Phnom Penh, leaving dozens injured and eight people killed. Chhun, who has called Hun Sen's regime a puppet of Communist Vietnam, claimed at the time that the attack was a coup...
...resign and demand that a campus-wide election be held in the fall to elect a replacement vice president. This is the only way to ensure that the UC maintains the legitimacy that it has built up over years of service to the student body after this anti-democratic coup...
...most serious rift between Seoul and Washington arose late last year over contingency planning on what the U.S. and South Korea should do if the North Korean government starts to fall apart or a disgruntled North military officer stages a coup. Under current guidelines, a U.S. general would lead American and South Korean forces in any shooting war with the North, as long as the allies agree that the situation warrants military action. But under what circumstances would troops be called in? Worried that signs of instability in the North might mean nuclear weapons were falling into unknown hands, Washington...
...Russia's political élite certainly seem to miss him. Their views received striking expression in a 3,000-word article in the Russian Defense Ministry daily, Krasnaya Zvezda. The author, Marshal Dmitri Yazov, a former Defense Minister who was one of the leaders of the botched 1991 coup against ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, describes the former Soviet dictator not only as "the greatest military leader of all ages and peoples" but as an inspiration for today's Russia. Yazov's article glossed over Stalin's errors - "even geniuses make mistakes" - and did not mention the millions who died...
...after his departure from the stock exchange, said last week that no big German company was now immune to outside shareholder pressure. Keitel of Schutzgemeinschaft der Kapitalanleger draws a different lesson. She expects the capitalism debate to simmer down after next week's poll, but the discussion of the coup at Deutsche Börse "will continue for a lot longer." Management ignored the strong feelings of a large minority of shareholders, she says, and "that was a very big mistake." It remains to be seen whether the locust imagery will save the spd's skin in North Rhine?Westphalia...