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Esquire 's coup: face time with the reclusive Clarence Thomas.
On 30 September 1965, a group of army conspirators, who claimed they acted to prevent a possible coup against Sukarno, kidnapped and killed six army generals.
He says the coup plot was merely a cry for attention by the GOP freshman class of 1994, not a serious attempt at getting rid of him.
In Germany Monday, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called the move "Yeltsin's coup" but added in a front-page comment that the next few days would show whether Yeltsin has only been acting on whim or whether there's a strategy behind it.
"Cannibalism": The House coup is taking the GOP in the wrong direction.