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...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 to be vigilant...
...It’s a kind of coup d’etat,” Elbegdorj said in a phone interview Wednesday night...
...democracy back in the 1990s as a member of ?young Turks? economists headed by Yegor Gaidar, Yeltsin's Acting Premier. In 1994, Illarionov quit the cabinet in the wake of his conflict with Premier Victor Chernomyrdin, whom he accused of stifling liberal reforms and staging an ?economic coup d?etat...
...based options,” Harvard University Dining Services has pulled the cereal of our youth from the shelves and replaced it with a rag-tag army of Mateys, Bursts and Zings. While there are those who heartily resist this cereal coup d’etat, an equally vociferous camp welcomes the morsel metamorphosis with open arms and an oversized spoon. This week, FM pits Chris Schonberger ’06 and Andrew L. Kreicher ’06 against each other in a no-holds-barred, winner-take-all, dog-eat-dog, one-two-three...
...time Aristide's plane touched down in the Central African Republic, however, he was not sounding philosophical. He accused the Americans of carrying out a "geopolitical kidnapping," claiming he had been forced out by a U.S.-led "coup d'etat." Members of the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus have called for an investigation, but Secretary of State Colin Powell dismissed the allegations as "absurd...