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...might not have backed his leadership bid. At a party meeting in Linz he was severely criticized for bringing down the government. "This is the end of the Haider era," says Peter Sichrovsky, the outgoing general secretary of the party, who resigned last week in protest over Haider's "putsch." Sichrovsky remorsefully adds, "We failed to get the party out of the extremist corner." Though the party will contest the elections without Haider, support last week fell to 12%, down from a high of 27% almost three years ago. What happened? The party may have been a victim...
...coups go, Venezuela?s could only be called absurd. The plotters were brash and incompetent, while the U.S. stumbled on the sidelines, appearing at times to welcome the overthrow of an elected government. The whole thing lasted only three days, and in the end, the target of the putsch re-emerged as its conqueror: the once and once again leader, President Hugo Ch?vez...
...biggest media circus in history. It would make the O.J. trial look like a school-board truancy hearing. It would offer the greatest platform for the propagation of a murderously evil ideology since Weimar Germany launched Hitler's career with the 1923 Munich trial for his pathetic beer-hall putsch...
...putsch had been a total surprise, although it should not have been. By 1990, Gorbachev's perestroika was more uncomfortable balancing act than dynamic reform program. He often seemed overwhelmed at the complexity of the task he had taken on. Reform had been premised on the assumption that dismantling the repressive apparatus of the state, admitting to the horrors of the past and trying to rectify them would strengthen the legitimacy of Gorbachev and his brand of modernized socialism. It did the opposite. The masses turned against the system and Gorbachev himself, whom they labeled a "boltun," a wind...
...Baltics. Many of its leaders were horrified at the collapse of their super power. Vladimir Kryuchkov, chairman of the KGB and later to be the moving force in the August coup, had all but accused Gorbachev of high treason in a closed session of parliament. But still, the putsch fizzled. The first ominous lull turned quickly into a baffling loss of momentum. Soon after the events, the story leaked out that the putsch leadership was less a junta than an all-day vodka party. Most of the eight leaders are said to have spent three days dead drunk. This...