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ASSASSINATED. VAZGEN SARKISIAN, 40, Prime Minister of Armenia; inside the Armenian parliament; in Yerevan. The gunmen--who killed several other officials before taking 40 hostages--claimed a coup d'etat but surrendered the following morning. A former Defense Minister, Sarkisian had been in the post for five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 8, 1999 | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

International controversy erupted after Chavunduka, editor of the weekly Zimbabwe Standard, and Ray Choto, a reporter for the paper, were illegally arrested and tortured by members of the military for refusing to divulge their sources for a December 1998 story on an attempted coup d'etat by the Zimbabwe National Army...

Author: By Eric S. Barr, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nieman Fellow Returns After Trial Postponed | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...wage. In The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 406 pages; $27), Nicholas Lemann describes the rise to power of the SAT and the keepers of its flame at the Educational Testing Service. Lemann is especially good at describing the "quiet coup d'etat" that the SAT accomplished in the 1950s and '60s, when it booted the Wasp elite by substituting classroom skills for the old-boy network as the key to college admission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: High Scorer | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...only make of the game. Teammates andfans alike streamed onto the hardwood, and thegame that was to be Redding's coup de grace becameMonti's coup d' etat...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: W. Hoops Wins With Two Buzzer Beaters | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Sierra Leone's descent into chaos began on May 25, 1997, when a group of rebel soldiers from the Sierra Leone Army staged a coup d'etat, replaced democratically elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma, and soon allied themselves with R.U.F., the rebel movement that had waged a civil war earlier in the 1990s. Koroma was quickly isolated by some of Sierra Leone's West African neighbors, such as Nigeria and Guinea, which wanted to see Kabbah restored. Last February an ECOMOG military force pushed the junta from power, driving the rebels out of the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Heart Of Darkness | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

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