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...were a newly installed president of the Philippines and you heard a general was plotting to overthrow you, what would you do? If you were Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, heroine of last month's People Power II revolt in Manila, you'd get on your cell phone. At her maiden press conference last week, Arroyo was asked if Lieut. General Edgardo Espinosa, supposedly one of her most loyal military supporters, was planning a rebellion. As the news cameras rolled, Arroyo called the general and, using his nickname, asked: "Espine, are you going to stage a coup against me?" The general...
...ZIMBABWE Internal Strains Parliament again postponed debate on a controversial media bill amid reports of growing dissent within the ruling zanu-pf party. As human-rights groups noted increasing incidents of political violence and the U.N. delivered food aid to once-productive areas, local reports said a parliamentary revolt led by rebel M.P. Eddison Zvobgo had forced the government to amend proposed new information laws. Bills curtailing political activity and election campaigning have already been passed into...
...gentle, inspiring revolution - but it has developed into a bad Philippine habit. Four months after Marcos fled the Philippines, a former political ally declared himself head of state and, with some military backing, took over the swank Manila Hotel. On the second night of that comic, two-day revolt, I held a cocktail party for visiting family members. Afterward, we climbed into the car and toured the revolution. My family enjoyed roaming the fortified hotel with machine-gun toting soldiers and opportunistic, barong-clad politicians wearing heavy gold jewelry. In the next three years, a string of coup attempts nearly...
...recent panic over rising gasoline prices highlighted the political improbability of either a Bush or a Gore administration taking the tough steps necessary to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Last summer, American consumers went into revolt when the gasoline price crept past $2 a gallon, and Washington was obliged to scramble for remedies. And yet, $2 a gallon may not be high enough: European success in curbing their own carbon gas emissions has relied in part on taxing gasoline so heavily - as much as 75 percent of the pump price in Britain goes to tax, compared with about 8 percent...
...scanning. At the high-tech, high-output end of the copier business, in a segment Xerox once had all to it- self, competitors have finally caught up. To make matters worse, the company's immensely proud, even arrogant corporate culture rebelled at management's latest attempt to reorganize--a revolt that cost the CEO his job and left big customers feeling neglected. The end result: the company's profits and its stock price are in free fall...