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The LAT goes with Jakarta student street riots over a just-passed bill that has raised fears of a coup because it bestows new emergency powers on the Indonesian military.
In 1926, Pilsudski engineered a military coup and seized control under the Sanacja, or senate, government that would rule until the start of World War II.
Although speaking immediately after Yeltsin, Clinton noted the heavy civilian casualties inflicted by the Russian army and made an analogy: If Yeltsin had been jailed (instead of elected president) after standing on a tank in defiance of the 1991 Soviet coup, Clinton argued, "I would hope that every leader of every country around this table would have stood up for you and for freedom in Russia, and not said, 'Well, that is an internal Russian affair that we cannot be part of.
At first, the Clinton administration hoped that Musharraf 's coup might create an opening for action on Bin Ladin.
The Letter from Washington looks at the failed House coup from Speaker Newt Gingrich's perspective, predicting that Gingrich will follow his support base and shift from conservative revolutionary to moderate.