Word: putsch
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...Soviet Central Committee in 1990 when he helped found a separate Russian Communist Party. It was created to oppose the reformist course of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, led by Mikhail Gorbachev. Zyuganov proudly says he served as "a leading ideologist" in the failed 1991 communist putsch against Gorbachev...
DIED. GENERAL EDMOND JOUHAUD, 90, the last survivor of the four French generals who staged the failed 1961 putsch in Algiers to overthrow President Charles de Gaulle and keep Algeria in French hands; in Royan, France. Jouhaud was condemned to death, but De Gaulle commuted his sentence to life in prison and then released...
...cast ballots. N.R.A. leaders went to great lengths last week in Phoenix to deny any serious rupture within the board. And despite speculation that hard-liners Knox and Metaksa might try to wrest control of the board from the somewhat more moderate helmsmanship of Washington and LaPierre, no putsch transpired. "The N.R.A. plays political games hard, inside and outside, but we are like a big family," says Knox. "Woe be unto you if you say something bad about our mama. We circle the wagons...
...turmoil grew worse when former California Supreme Court Judge William Clark, the leader of the boardroom putsch that removed Agee six weeks ago, resigned last week as acting chairman to return to his consulting business and his horse ranch in California. Clark, who once served as Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser, said he had achieved his goals of exposing the company's financial woes and putting in place a new management team. Also departing was Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, who, like Clark, became a director just last year. Remaining members of the company's beleaguered...
...refused to storm the building where Yeltsin was holed up; in October 1993, when the leaders of Parliament dared to challenge Yeltsin in the streets, he sided with the President. According to people close to the President's office, Grachev even reminded Yeltsin after the October putsch: "Boris Nikolayevich, I have twice saved you." Officers have nicknamed the Defense Minister "the President's shooting crutch...