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...also need to rethink our chummy support for Pakistan’s military regime. Referring to the beneficiary (and initiator) of a military coup as “a courageous leader and a friend of the United States,” as Bush has described President Musharaff, and inviting him to take part in joint press conferences with the Secretary of Defense, sends the wrong message about America’s commitment to democracy. In fact, as The American Prospect recently pointed out, our government’s financial support for brutal authoritarian regimes throughout Central Asia has increased substantially...
...cynical observer—who actually remembers what I was talking about—might interject that the Harvard-Yale game, which took place in New Haven and drew 53,136 to the vicinity of the stadium, taints the Bulldogs’ attendance coup...
...RATU SIR KAMISESE MARA, 83, founding father of Fiji who helped guide the Pacific island to independence after 96 years of British colonial rule; in Suva, Fiji. An important U.S. ally during the cold war, he served as Prime Minister for 25 years before becoming President in a 1993 coup but was forced to retire in 2000 after an armed gang held the Prime Minister and Cabinet hostage for 56 days...
...once helped direct massacred at least 15 people in the seaside slum of Raboteau. The victims, many of whom were tortured and made to lie in open sewers before being shot, were supporters of then Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who had been ousted in a 1991 military coup. U.S. troops restored Aristide to power in 1994, and Chamblain, who fled Haiti, was convicted in absentia the following year for helping to lead the Raboteau massacre. Chamblain, who denies involvement in Raboteau, returned to Haiti this past February to help lead a rebel uprising that ousted and exiled the leftist...
...effects of a stroke, towered over Fijian politics for three decades. Trained as a civil servant under British colonial rule, he helped draft a constitution that gave equal status to ethnic Fijians and Indians and in 1970 became the independent nation's first Prime Minister. After a 1987 military coup ousted Mara's left-wing political rival, he resumed the prime ministership and assented to a new constitution favoring ethnic Fijians. (He later apologized to Indo-Fijians for doing so.) Six years later he became President, but in 2000, during a botched coup whose leaders accused him of selling...