Word: governments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deposed by a coup. Premature: Chavez Frias, who led a failed coup in February, is still in jail, and by dawn Perez was broadcasting that this attempt too had failed. But then rebel planes bombed the presidential palace, and inmates staged an uprising in a Caracas prison. Saturday morning, government officials were reporting nearly 100 deaths. Sporadic fighting continued, but with the capture of several coup leaders and the surrender of other rebels, the beleaguered Perez (his disapproval rating in a recent poll hit an astonishing 92%) seemed safe. Able to govern? Well...
...Panamanian voters said no to the package of 58 complicated items in a simple yes or no vote. The vote was tantamount to a rejection of Endara's rule, which has left the country with 20% unemployment, rampant crime and corruption. Charging that the President is unqualified to govern, opponents will press for a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution. Endara accepts the result but insists it does not obligate him to reinstate the army, which he replaced with a civilian security force...
...central tenets in a few hours. But he carried it around for weeks, dipping in and out, rereading its advice, "learning a little," as he put it. "He keeps talking about it," said his aide, George Stephanopoulos, at the time. "It's like a private bible about how to govern...
...Hilton Als, in perhaps the most disturbing and challenging essay included here, contests the very existence of any book (such as this one) which defines writers by color. He contemptuously dismisses the notions of "otherness" and "difference" that govern so much thought today, calling them "very stupid words." His defiant piece suggests an exciting alternative to deeply rooted ideas about race difference and so-called "minority" issues. The inclusion of Als' essay places this collection on the cutting edge of current Black criticism...
Clinton will also govern a country where trust of politicians, according to opinion polls, has dropped to levels unseen since shortly after Watergate--when Carter began his run for the presidency...