Word: etats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aristide, Haiti's popularly-elected president, was deposed in a September 1991 coup d'etat after serving nine months in office. Chomsky said Clinton has perpetuated the Bushadministration's policy of only supportingAristide's reinstatement as a figurehead in agovernment made up of the current military leadersand other wealthy elite...
...finally laid his claim to power on the line. In a prime-time television address Tuesday evening, he announced he was disbanding the legislature, even if it meant violating the constitution, and called new parliamentary elections for December. Angry Deputies quickly denounced Yeltsin's move as a coup d'etat and set up their own government, led by Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, Yeltsin's most implacable enemy. Suddenly, the most serious political crisis since the failed attempt to re-establish communist hegemony in August 1991 had engulfed Moscow...
Veritas permeates Harvard. It is emblazoned on the chairs, the walls, the gates, even imprinted on the first years' underwear. But for nearly 90 days I have asked for the unexpurgated, non-rhetorical truth in this coup d'etat and have received little more than the stains on the underwear. My eyes are open. With every pore of my being I am visual. My voice may be diminished by the resounding bang of authority, but I call now upon the administration of this great university and upon every person who is committed to the advancement of education in the arts...
...their faith is pinned on Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. He is too much the populist President to take comparisons with King Louis XIV of France very kindly. But anyone who looks at how power is wielded in Russia today cannot help seeing that, to paraphrase the boastful French monarch, l'etat c'est Yeltsin. The Russian leader never aspired to the role of Sun President, around whom everything in the realm turns. But he so dominates the political landscape that it would be no exaggeration to say that as Yeltsin goes, so goes the nation...
Meanwhile, the Constitutional Court opened hearings into the history of communist rule and Yeltsin's ban of the party after the coup d'etat of August 1991. As General Secretary of the party for its last six years, Gorbachev was naturally called to testify. He refused, saying he would not participate in a "political" trial, "even if I am brought to the court in handcuffs." In < retaliation, the Russian authorities have threatened to evict him from his institute and yanked his passport. Only when the Germans protested his treatment was he permitted to go to the Brandt funeral...