Word: etat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expanded powers that go along with it, were won by parliamentary, not popular, vote. But there was no denying the fact that almost five years to the day after he assumed the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party, Gorbachev had engineered nothing less than a coup d'etat, effectively ending his party's monopoly on power. Said he: "We all can feel the first real results of political change. A system of genuine people power is being created and the groundwork laid for building a country governed...
...Jung denounced Roh's gambit as a "political coup d'etat" and demanded a general election, but most South Koreans were not so disgruntled. The country's fractious four-party system is unwieldy and inefficient, and besides, the opposition parties themselves are largely one-man shows. If nothing else, the realignment will reduce South Korea's confusing roster of same-sounding political parties, and perhaps with it, put an end to internecine bickering in the legislature...