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...host to a coup d'?tat. In fact, when Ecuadorian president Jamil Mahuad was ousted Friday, it was the first military coup in the region in more than a decade. And the early signs are that it was good timing. Ecuador, which has been plagued by economic and social unrest, and where medical services have been virtually nonexistent for the past three months, seemed calm in the days following the ascension of Vice President Gustavo Noboa Bejarano to the presidency - the country's fourth leader in six years...
...critical time in the history of the former Yugoslavia. He won the elections in Croatia by preaching a fiery, intolerant nationalism, rallying Croats to the point of view that only Croats knew how to govern Croats, and that Croatia was for them alone. At a time when ethnic unrest was being stoked on the Serbian side by Slobodan Milosevic, Tudjman jumped in on the other side and denounced Serbs as eagerly as Milosevic denounced other nationalities...
...dilemma is that he is the prisoner of the Chinese Communist Party, which he leads 50 years after its revolution: a party that is empty of vision, worried about unrest, out of touch with a younger generation of Chinese for whom money, not ideology, is the bottom line. The harder Jiang tries to impress, the less China's population wants to listen. He understands the need for economic development, but political openness is still out of the question. Even as the ink was drying on the trade deal, police were detaining members of Falun Gong, the banned meditation cult...
...government officials say they expect it to get worse before it gets better. The political unrest in Pakistan and an unfounded rumor, started by smugglers, that there will soon be an immigration amnesty for illegals already in the U.S. are likely to cause another surge in crossings. But many Mohawks don't take the problem all that seriously. "After all," says Little Tree, "to us, everyone is an alien...
...after day, The Crimson printed Associated Press stories on troop deployments. Cambridge and Boston experienced racial and ethnic unrest. Not a week went without news of a new Vietnam protest in Cambridge or Boston by student groups...