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He had been a loyal ally of the coup leader and military chief, Frank Bainimarama.

For a moment on Saturday afternoon, it seemed as though Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had been ousted in a military coup.

Another coup, by some or other bit of the armed forces, is possible.

His second option is to persuade Mr Putin to step down, or to sack him. This would amount to a palace coup.

Mr Berlusconi himself set off speculation over his future a week ago by speaking vaguely of a "coup" plot against him.

The coup in 1973, which had the backing of the United States, ended a democratic tradition in Chile that stretched back to the 1930s.

In 1997, when I was an intern at The Associated Press's Bangkok bureau, my editors asked if I would travel to help cover a coup there.

Boris Yeltsin gained international acclaim when he occupied the Russian White House and faced down the threats of the leaders of the coup.

I had been a big admirer of his since he stood up on a tank to oppose an attempted coup ten months earlier.

Wen Jiabao, China's premier, can hail his visit to North Korea as a bit of a diplomatic coup.

In a news conference at the airport in San Jose, Costa Rica, Mr. Zelaya said he is the victim of a coup d'etat.

Peter had not been planning a coup, but now that he had the opportunity to get rid of Sophia, he grabbed it.

Calling on Ahmadinejad to resign, they said the election results were a "coup d'etat" and chanted "Death to the lying government" .

This week he said he would return from exile soon and invite the coup makers to a round of golf.

Thaksin tried to head off the coup by telephoning a Thai television station from New York to announce a state of emergency.

The 1983 elections were held a year early, and were a direct result of an abortive military coup attempt on August 1, 1982.

The army chief behind Thailand's coup said yesterday he would step down in two weeks and promised elections next year.

The settlement represents something of a coup for the trustee Irving Picard.

Small coup: the deviation direction of the front wheel to increase the tire pressure or reduced pressure in another direction.

SOMETHING of a hopeful trajectory was implied in The Economist's report on the Friday coup of 1932.

He had been convicted of trying to overthrow the west African country's government in a coup.

A week later, Maj. Gen. Park Chung-hee staged a coup, the beginning of his 18-year iron-fisted rule.

On September 6th news leaked via AllThingsD, a technology-news website, that she had been ousted in a surprise coup by Yahoo! 's board.

Earlier it had been agreed that Andry Rajoelina, who led a coup overthrowing his rival, Marc Ravalomanana, would remain head of state.

Manuel Zelaya, president of Honduras, who was ousted by a military coup last month, made an abortive attempt to fly back to his country.

Georgian officials linked the reported coup attempt to Russia, and said it was intended to topple President Mikael Saakashvili.

The Coup (1979) was an exotic first-person narration by an ex-dictator of a fictitious African state.

One Hamas official says the ball is in Israel's coup . He said the captive soldier could be released in days or years .

But this caveat should not cloud the central issue: a coup in a region which has shed authoritarianism should not be allowed to stand.

He began to idolize President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, who preached Arab unity and socialism after deposing the king in a 1952 coup.

Rumours of a coup, planned by a cabal of disgruntled senior security men and ZANU-PF bigwigs opposed to any real power-sharing, are rife.

A former British mercenary jailed and then pardoned for an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea is now back in Britain.

A year later, this was deposed in a coup led by George Speight, a hardline Fijian nationalist.

But almost any position would represent a coup for Mr Hurd after HP's board forced him to quit the company he had led for five years.

Introduce you to the next few glitches for self-study of the coup.

Out of the jealousy, a coup was created with the assistance of a future human dream that would draw the Annanuki unto Earth.

The interview - which has not been confirmed - would be a coup for the Hollywood star's brand of activist journalism.

After the 2006 coup, foreign visitors treated the tanks on the streets as if they were a tourist attraction.

Wade said he still can't believe Miami pulled off the coup of free agency, luring James and Bosh to join him.

But, in a defiant sideswipe, he said that his enemies had mounted a "coup against the constitution'. "

The animosity between the two Venezuelan leaders dates back to at least 1992, when Mr. Chavez led a failed coup attempt against Mr. Perez.

He was turfed out in a coup in 2006 and went into exile.

It would be a terrific move for Portsmouth FC and a real coup.

At first national officials said the seizure was an intelligence coup.

The yard was completed in October, four months ahead of schedule, something that UBS analyst Hubert Tang sees as a coup for the company.

Worse still, a year ago in Madagascar the AU deplored a coup and loudly insisted that the power-grabber should stand aside.

In ancient times, it has "only court, do not see the huangshan face" the laudatory name, was quite a coup.

She promises not to avenge the coup or to rush into pardoning and bringing home her brother.

When Danone, a French food giant, acquired a 51% stake in Wahaha Beverage, a Chinese firm, in 1996, it considered it a coup.

Palpatine cried out for help, calling Mace a traitor, and explaining how the Jedi had engineered a coup to topple the Republic's leadership.

He even went so far as to break up the party bureaus that oversaw the economy, prompting an abortive coup by hardliners.

Following the coup, Mr Thaksin has said he intends to take a "deserved rest" from politics.

Prospects of a coup in the midst of these tensions are slim, but heavy-handed political interference from the Turkish military is likely.

The rest of the region, led by Brazil, says that this would legitimise a coup.

Shortly after the coup d'etat that brought Qaddafi to power, he unceremoniously ordered all Italians to leave Libyan territory.

Far from promoting harmony, its implicit aim was to foster a coup within the party against Mr Kan.

This was widely circulated and much giggled over and, within a few weeks, Horton was ousted in a boardroom coup.

Wary of further bloodshed, the coup plotters gave up the next day.

The backwash squeeze is a useful way of neutralizing enemy trumps that cannot be drawn. It may help to establish a trump coup, for instance.

But having an assembly chairman who himself came to power through a coup d'etat is clearly not going to help them hold the line.

Military coup d'etat has always been treated as an important topic in both the areas of political development and democratization.

The marketing coup was devised entirely by Hyundai's U. S. managers and likely helped the company outperform its rivals during the downturn.

But it is difficult to see the vote as a ringing endorsement of the new charter itself, let alone as a vindication of last September's coup.

After all, surely everyone would want to be in charge and the atmosphere would be poisoned by the constant coup attempts.

The ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, has returned to his country nearly three months after he was expelled in a coup.

It's not a coup. It's not a leader falling out of the sky and announcing a succession.

There, he accused the officers of treason and plotting a coup, and said they had been misled by opposition political parties.

Those leaders, he said, came to power "either by a military coup or with backing from foreign forces. "

Most Muscovites were unaffected by the coup; their principal memories of it are the sound of Tchaikovsky.

That is because most have tired of his rule, and blame him for the constitutional crisis that preceded the coup.

When news of the coup broke, the prime minister's slot on the schedule of speeches was hastily moved up to Tuesday evening.

A national-unity government is to be formed by November 5th. Next year a truth commission will be set up to look at the coup.

Until the coup, Thailand seemed to be escaping its historic cycle of alternating military dictatorships and weak civilian rule.

The many "liberals" who despised Mr Thaksin and applauded the coup may argue that this vindicates them.

That deal triggered street protests that eventually led to a bloodless coup that brought down the Thaksin government.

General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, the former army chief who led the 2006 coup, seems to have gone quietly into retirement.

The curfew has now been lifted, but the army announced it had foiled a coup attempt. Roadblocks are still frequent.

Unlike Thailand's army, which returned to politics with a coup in 2006, Indonesia's has stayed back in the barracks.

At least a dozen coups or coup attempts in Africa were traced to his backing.

But no coup leaders stepped forward to demand that Mr Correa step down or to proclaim a new government.

The colonel was one of the main supporters of President Andry Rajoelina when Mr. Rajoelina seized power in a military-backed coup last year.

Suharto rose to power after leading the military in 1965 to put down what was officially called an attempted communist coup.

One is Honduras, where the ousting of its president in a coup is nonetheless seen by Control Risks as essentially a "domestic issue" .

'Everything in the book is happening, ' he said, 'except the coup. '

On taking power in 1969 through a military coup, he nationalized Libya's oil and used much of that money to develop the Libyan economy.

The move consolidates General Moeen's power and, for now, removes the threat of a coup within the army.

Rather than a hard coup intended to snuff out the country's evolving democracy, it is an attempt to slow and control it.

Primitive reflects Thai society now, because we recently had a military coup, and also during the making of this piece.

Thaksin, a billionaire who was accused of corruption and ousted in a 2006 military coup, is now calling for a revolution.

It has laid a formal complaint with public prosecutors , calling for a full criminal investigation into an attempted coup.

But by then, the idyllic image of an easygoing, romantic Brazil had been shuttered by a military coup.

IT COULD have been a public-relations coup.

In some countries, the gushing endorsement of a well-placed official would be considered a public relations coup.

He was thrown out of the company in a boardroom coup in 1985.

Coup 12: wash, sauna, hot bubble bath, do not forget to put a bottle of water nearby.

Many are loyal to a former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, who was kicked out in a 2006 coup.

Several generals are being tried in the so-called Ergenekon case against would-be plotters of a military coup.

The president himself claimed he was the victim of an attempted coup.

The same court is now deciding whether or not to confiscate 76 billion baht ($2. 3 billion) of his assets frozen after a coup in 2006.

For China and its burgeoning auto industry, scoring Volvo would be a coup on several levels.

So, for the generals behind the coup, he was an obvious choice to steer the economy.

A political coup within the Communist Party could provide the temporary stability necessary to solve the economic crisis.

It is a testimony to Mr Conte's 24 years of misrule that the coup was greeted at the least with equanimity by most Guineans.

A newspaper had claimed that the army planned to plant bombs in a mosque and to take advantage of the ensuing chaos to engineer a coup.

Following the military coup, there has been a clampdown on press reporting in the capital.

The generals signally failed to prove the claims of "rampant corruption" and other misdeeds by Mr Thaksin used to justify the coup.

To most military men, such a bomb is not a PR coup, but an embarrassment.

Local newspapers had quoted one of the nine judges as saying they would "apply the spirit " of the coup-makers in making their rulings.

Once again Egypt will be left to choose between military autocracy and a stealthy electoral coup by the Islamist Muslim Brothers.

Georgy Gvaladze, one of the commanders of the coup and a former special forces commander, has been arrested.

Regardless, Lin's attempted coup had failed, leading to the destruction of his reputation within the CCP and in the country.

Remarkably, only a short time after the end of a military dictatorship, a coup seems rather unlikely.

The takeover of the Cortes was the spearhead of a wider coup plot.

That was a coup for the government. But Whitehall might be about to strike back.

S. troops there to restore democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who had been ousted in a military coup.

The president of Honduras says he's the victim of a coup after he was brutally kidnapped by soldiers.

If I make a coup of deals and everything goes well, you may find me waiting for you in a big fine house when you come back next spring.

Furthermore, Mr Bashir's government has retreated from the fundamentalist fervour unleashed by his 1989 coup.

For 42 long years, from the moment he came to power in a bloodless coup, Muammar Gaddafi did all he could to become ubiquitous.

The latest coup talk may have galvanised Mr Erdogan into a fresh burst of reformist zeal.

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Gorbachev said there had been an unconstitutional coup and that he was completely well.

She expected General Zia ul-Haq, the coup leader, to hold elections in a few months.

Responding early that morning, the president refused to condemn the coup, calling it merely "a disturbing development. "

The mercurial leader came to power in a bloodless coup against King Idris in 1969, when he was just an army captain.

Others blamed some faction within the regular army, which has bred over a dozen coup attempts in Bangladesh's short history.

Many schools have been closed since the coup, but businesses in the capital continue to operate.

A subsequent military coup quashed the demonstrations, during which Suu Kyi emerged as the face of democracy in Myanmar.

And I believe to change a state, it couldn't be happened by just start up a simple coup or blow up some building.

Their most magnificent coup was a collection of royal cast-offs, Stuart furniture and tapestries, just when everyone was modernising.

The main opposition leader, Deniz Baykal, has at times seemed even keener on a coup than are the generals themselves.

Chun staged his coup in 1979 by taking advantage of a political vacuum left by the assassination of president Park Chung-Hee.

Asked about coup plots, military chiefs serve up boilerplate denials, just as they did in 2006.

Qutb and the Brotherhood initially welcomed the coup and worked enthusiastically with its leaders.

But also, the book was launched in time for me to be accused of constructing the blueprint for a foiled coup attempt.

Mr. Putin, who in 1991 was a middle-ranking intelligence officer in St. Petersburg, left the K. G. B. during the coup.

we've going out for a coup of years and will probably get married soon.

In 1974, the president of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, was deposed in a coup orchestrated by the Greek military regime.

One of the first items on the new government's agenda is restarting the Thai economy, which slumped following the coup.

He was deposed in a military coup in September of that year.

A group of South American countries threatened to boycott the event if he went, because he was elected under a coup regime.

Likewise, the coup plotters insisted, the weak and spineless Soviet president and party boss, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, had to go.

And bringing on a big name company like IBM as a partner is certainly a coup for the company.

He began plotting a coup to take over the country while in college.

So most of his support had evaporated even before he staged his second coup.

From the country's viewpoint, it is even harder to see why Mr Brown needs the coup de grâ ce just yet.

That would be a coup for Mrs Clinton's Asian diplomacy, though a distant goal for now.

Mr. Thaksin, who was ousted in a military coup two years ago, denies wrong doing and accuses the judiciary of bias.

But a license has not been given to a U. S. bank in 6-years, so this is a significant coup for JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley.

So the model can be a powerful tool in studying the mechanism and tolerance limit of coup-contrecoup injury.

There are dark mutterings of a coup against him by moderates in his own party.

In it, it's alleged the Pakistani government asked for American help to weaken the Pakistani army, which it was feared might stage a coup.

Colonel Qaddafi survived countless coup and assassination attempts and cracked down harshly afterward, alienating important Libyan tribes.

Tempting Mr Bolton out of retirement to run the China fund was a big coup for Fidelity.

The fact that the human gut flora flourished in the rodents was indeed an experimental coup.

It would have looked like a military coup and would have set a disastrous precedent.

In death, they catalyzed a massive popular protest that broke the back of a military coup by communist hardliners.

The clinical characteristic and cure measure in the elderly patients with contra coup craniocerebral due to occiput decelerate Injury .

I've just asked him what it was like to be the victim of a coup led by Sacks, Levchin, and Thiel.

As a high-tech lightweight construction element it emphasizes the unique elegance of this gran turismo Coup.

It seems that the above barely visible Nautilus, reminding people since independence, the country's coup crisis is not stopped.

Anti-narcotics officials say that drug seizures have risen since the military coup in September 2006.

Mr Yanayev - and the other coup leaders - were all arrested when the coup failed, but he was pardoned in 1994.

The coup also brought in a crackdown on fringe groupings of Islamic extremists courted by the former BNP government.

Dialogue with India was on while you were still in Rolpa, before the King's coup?

Recent years have seen general strikes, popular uprisings, military crackdowns and a coup in the country.

It has had an inglorious record, beginning with a quasi-coup in 2002.

But it turned out not to be a scandal, but rather a coup.

It is unclear whether an effective interim government can be formed or decent elections held-always assuming there is no army coup.

In a country ruled by generals for much of its history, any upset invites rumours of a coup, and these are now abroad.

The activities Sunday marked the fourth anniversary of a 2006 military coup that toppled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Some opposition politicians prefer to describe what Iran is experiencing as a "white" (ie, bloodless) military coup.

The first 20 years of Mr Qaddafi's rule, after a coup he led as a young soldier in 1969, brought wrenching social change.

After the coup he was banned for five years from politics, which, to widespread scepticism, he anyway claims to have given up.

Mr Somchai has rejected calls for his resignation from the army chief, fueling rumours that a military coup might be imminent.

The moment is perilous for Mr Cameron, but not, in truth, because he faces a coup within his party.

When the dust settles, though, the coalition may not strike them as such a coup.

Half of the standing undead forces, led by the banshee Sylvanas Windrunner, staged a coup for control over the undead empire.

This, they said, was the only way to solve the problems created by the military coup of 2006.

The joke swiftly went around Moscow that you knew Communism must be through in Russia when the Bolsheviks couldn't even mount a proper coup.

After years of guerilla activity fighting the government, Prince Norodom Sihanouk was deposed in 1970 in a military coup.

Farkash is Gaddafi's second wife, following an obscure and brief six-month marriage prior to the coup that brought him to power.

As the fund puts it: "Australia is not a war zone, it is not under threat of invasion, military coup or civil unrest. "

Guinea-Bissau's military junta handed power back to a civilian government six weeks after the army staged a coup.

General Musharraf took power in a bloodless 1999 coup, and was later elected president by referendum.

The mandates are a coup for the banks because the fees for advising on the IPO are expected to run into hundreds of millions of dollars.

Hardline Communists who organized the coup ordered tanks into the streets of Moscow and restricted the movement of then President Gorbachev.

The Bolshevik coup in October 1917 was the outcome of the transformation of Marxism into Leninism.

Mr. Lukashenko has sought to portray the protest as part of an attempted coup, fomented by other countries.

Lastly he will to try to heal the deep rift in Honduran society generated by the coup, which has split countless families and friendships.

To be sure, there was, in fact, no coup -- the army was following Mubarak's orders.

All the countries of the Americas and the European Union severed relations with Honduras after the coup, and many cut aid programmes.

After the 2006 coup China appeared to come in quite aggressively in Fiji.

Worries grew over press freedom in Turkey when more journalists were arrested and charged with involvement in a coup plot.

The reshuffle set for October may reward pro-Thaksin officers who have been sidelined since the 2006 coup.

"THE chances of another coup in Bangladesh are close to zero, " says a former general in Bangladesh's army.

Twenty, including several admirals, were charged with drawing up plans for a military coup.

AMONG the unexpected problems caused by a coup in Honduras in 2009 was a reeking shrimp mountain.

Honduras was suspended from the Organisation of American States (OAS) over the coup.

The red-carpet coup may have helped that, but so did what Copping called strong orders for his pre-fall collection.

Put another way, it's a branding coup, one that instantly achieves the effortless Nordic cool of an Absolut Vodka bottle.

In 2009, there was a coup and some bloodshed and now a former disc jockey is in charge, backed by some generals.

During the coup attempt, he sent to teams to local garrisons to persuade commanders not to attack.

His staff rushed out a statement the following day to deny that they had uncovered a coup plot.

Coup leaders fled the capital and president Gorbachev was rumored to be returning soon.

When Communists tried to seize power in Indonesia in 1965, one Army general saw the danger and rallied fellow officers to fend off the coup.

Madagascar's government was just overthrown in a coup this past week.

After briefly opposing the coup, most of Guinea's sidelined politicians rallied round the captain.

"After the coup I was forced to eat my own shit and repeatedly raped with a truncheon, " he recalls.

When news of the coup broke, the prime minister'sslot onthe schedule of speeches washastilymoved up to Tuesday evening.

But it knows that will not end the cycle of confrontation that began when Mr Thaksin was toppled in a coup in 2006.

Following the death of the Sultan who had British sympathies, his nephew seized power through a coup.

Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister deposed in a coup in 2006, called on his followers to stage a "revolution" .

There is no longer a serious danger of a military coup.

The results speak soon, Bangkok satellite signal is interrupted, many people do not see the TV at home, thinking that another coup.

She pulled off a great coup in getting the president to agree to an interview.

There was another coup in 1971, and yet another in 1980.

In July 1974 a coup against the Greek-Cypriot leader, Archbishop Makarios, brought in a regime set on enosis, or union with Greece.

Yet a February coup d'etat heightened the anxiety of those who see danger in a stand-off.

But the coup's leaders have done nothing to ease reconciliation.

Dictatorship already seems a distant memory; the notion of a coup laughable.

The generals who staged the coup claimed to be saving Thai democracy from Mr Thaksin's abuses.

Any organized government has the right to protect themselves from a coup, whether we are for or against their principles .

The plan for the coup proceeded despite this set-back with one team of Hoare's men attempting to capture a barracks.

but not all went according to script on this ceremonial opening day . as leaders spoke , word spread of a military coup in thailand.

Four of its members have suffered civil wars in the past 20 years; only Cape Verde and Senegal have never had a coup since independence.

His first exit was in July 1943: a palace coup saw him arrested with surprisingly little fuss and spirited away in an ambulance.

This accelerated plunder of the rainforest coincided with a military coup in March 2009.

In this scenario, Lin and his high military commanders, sensing Mao's treachery , plotted a preemptive coup d'etat.

Double-dummy, declarer had to cash HA, cross to DA, ruff a club and then run the diamonds. This Dentist's Coup avoids the trump promotion.

The coup plotters were in confusion because of his resistance and refusal to resign the presidency.

His first coup was on a trip to Singapore, where a local department store bought his collection.

Facebook's new messaging service, which launched last month, may be the greatest coup of all.

They set the stage for a military coup after the president's death.

But the coup turned out to be bloodless.

Even after this long passage of time, Kissinger carefully refers to the drama as being "reportedly an abortive coup. "

The prime minister's supporters had denounced the expected decision as "a judicial coup. "

In the six months between the coup and the election of Porfirio Lobo, the current president, the aid tap was turned off.

The "red shirt" demonstrators are mainly supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a military coup in 2006.

Mr Thaksin has called for the resignation of two privy counsellors whom he says were behind the 2006 coup.

The protagonists will argue over whether this was a coup.

New image: Since being deposed in a 2006 coup amid allegations of graft and human rights abuses, Thaksin has lived a peripatetic existence.

Just days before the coup, Angola had announced that it was ending a $30 million security sector reform mission to Guinea-Bissau.

It was put forward by the country's military leaders, who came to power in a coup in February.

The coup date was the fifteenth night of the eighth month.

After being ousted in 1985 in a boardroom coup, he struggled for several years, buying or founding companies and pursuing old interests.

Barnsley boss Simon Davey has hailed the signing of young winger Adam Hammill from Liverpool as a 'great coup'.

Col Gadhafi forcibly integrated the nation when he seized power in a military coup in 1969.

Only if the anger of the populace grows large enough, or the resources of the state are exhausted, does a counter-coup provoke change.

In a brilliant linguistic coup, Prof Sargent and colleagues appropriated the term "rational expectations" for their answer.