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Peacekeepers from eight West African nations used tanks and gunboats to defeat a faction of the former Liberian army that tried to overthrow an interim government; it was the latest outbreak of fighting in Liberia's five-year-old civil war. The attempted putsch came three days after the country's three main warring factions signed a United Nations-approved peace pact...
...author's note to Beyond Peace, Nixon recalls that he told former Russian Vice President Alexander Rutskoi that politics, like war, could be hell. When Rutskoi was released from prison in February, where he had been held following his failed putsch against Boris Yeltsin, Nixon thought perhaps Rutskoi had learned "that, for some, there can be life after hell...
...story White House. Last week, camped out overnight in his living room the better to keep an eye on the building once again, Kohan was awakened by the rumble of tanks. "This time the building was being attacked by troops loyal to Yeltsin to prevent a communist putsch," says Kohan. "It was a reminder of just how full of irony Russia...
When the old hacks, led by KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov, launched their putsch in 1991, Remnick spent the crucial August days and nights with Boris Yeltsin and his backers at the Russian Parliament Building. For the most part, the thousands who stood up for democracy at the Russian White House did it for the man they had elected, Yeltsin. "It wasn't about Gorbachev," one woman told Remnick. "Gorbachev got what he deserved...
...curtain rose last week on what could prove the final act in a drama of tragicomic ineptitude: the "vodka putsch." Remember the three days in August 1991 when a dozen communist leaders imprisoned Mikhail Gorbachev and seized control of the Soviet Union? After the scheme fell apart, one conspirator drank himself into a stupor, another shot himself dead, and a third made a break for the airport -- where he was arrested with the key to his new Kremlin office still in his pocket...