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...planned and halfheartedly carried out: had the plotters acted with half the acumen and ruthlessness of the routine Latin general or African strongman seizing power, they might have succeeded. But some appeared to be more terrified than any of their prospective victims. Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov and Vice President Gennadi Yanayev, the ostensible head (really figurehead) of the so-called Emergency Committee, reportedly spent most of the three days of the coup dead drunk. Though Yanayev pulled himself together long enough to hold a press conference the first night of the coup, he and some other members of the committee...
...Kravchuk to join the discussions at the forest dacha. According to their aides, the three initially tried to revive a Gorbachev idea to form a fairly loose Union of Sovereign States that would still have a central government of sorts. But all day Saturday, says Russian Deputy Prime Minister Gennadi Burbulis, they kept hitting "a dead end." Finally the leaders instructed their foreign ministers to start over from scratch and draft something new. Working separately through the night, the ministers produced three texts that proved to be so similar that the leaders had no trouble next morning melding them into...
...nation that brought democracy to Japan and still guarantees its defense, those are not only ungracious sentiments but fighting words. They seem to confirm the implications of occasional opinion surveys that reflect a new degree of threat both countries sense in each other. Gennadi Gerasimov, the former Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman, phrased the development in a joking way last year. On a visit to Washington, he said "The cold war is over, and Japan won." In some views Japan is already achieving economically what it failed to win by force of arms: a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
...also heroes of the revolution, have been no help in resolving this confusion. On the contrary, they frequently squabble among themselves. Ruslan Khasbulatov, apparently annoyed by the failure of other Yeltsin supporters to back him for the still unfilled position of chairman of parliament, lashed out at State Secretary Gennadi Burbulis and State Counselor Sergei Shakhrai. He called them "kids who are simply not mature enough for politics...
...They gave me two options -- to hand my office over to ((Vice President Gennadi)) Yanayev and give the nod to the state of emergency, or to step down. They even tried to threaten me. I told them, 'You guys must have known I wouldn't agree to either. You're staging a coup d'etat. What you are trying to do with your committee is anticonstitutional and unlawful. This is adventurism that will result in bloodshed and civil war.' The general started trying to prove to me that they would see to it that such a thing wouldn't happen...