There, a putsch led by Bob Denard, a veteran mercenary, was put down by French troops.
This summer might also witness a repeat of the Hamas putsch in Gaza replayed in Lebanon.
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Conceivably to a military putsch, although that would require an unlikely amount of planning and nerve.
But the latest Kremlin-backed management putsch at Gazprom, the country's largest company, has made things look different.
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Chiefs from Fiji's tiny island of Bau, stalwart backers of the putsch, presided majestically over the ceremonies.
Very hard to winkle him out from the air, no sign at the moment of any kind of putsch.
Over recent weeks, rebel supporters have been trained by an elite squad of soldiers who assisted in the putsch.
Many trouble-spots around the country, associated with the Speight putsch, remain on edge.
But they want that to happen as part of Georgia's normal internal politics, not as a putsch dictated by Moscow.
At this stage, the premier feels, a display of unity will go down far better with voters than a putsch.
If their clarion call for a leadership contest was meant to ignite a putsch among Labour backbenchers, then it might have fizzled.
Why then risk the certain collateral damage that a putsch would cause to bundle Mr Blair out of office a few months early?
Just a few weeks ago, there had been whispers of a possible putsch against the boss they had elected only 20 months before.
The common sense of senior Tories should spare Mr Bercow from a putsch but he will be watched more closely than any recent speaker.
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The rear admiral was arrested after a failed coup in December 2011, but released in June last year in the wake of a successful putsch.
The king had been ostracised by neighbouring India immediately after his putsch, and his change of tune came on his return from international conferences in China and Indonesia.
According to Collison's version, the leftists were forced to bring their putsch forward to head off the Council of Generals, which had scheduled its own coup for Armed Forces Day, Oct. 5.
Recently, the head of that 1991 putsch, retired general Sunthorn Kongsompong, remarked that if the PM were someone other than former army chief Chavalit, the military might have seized power by now.
In the course of its jihadist putsch in Gaza, Hamas took control not only of Fatah's US- and European-financed military arsenal and the CIA and MI-6 intelligence gathering equipment Fatah was lavished with.
The king's putsch has at least drawn attention to the human-rights disaster that is Nepal, though most outside interest has focused on just one part of it: the royal repression of urban opposition.
Two days later, on Nov. 9 a very important date in the Nazi calendar, as it was the 15th anniversary of Hitler's first attempt to seize power, the Beer Hall Putsch the 29-year-old vom Rath died.
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In the same show, Diosdado Cabello, the president of the National Assembly and the second most powerful man in Chavismo, accused the opposition of planning a putsch and Mr. Capriles of unleashing "fascist" attacks on pro-Maduro supporters.
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In particular, they complain that the Kremlin is not helping track down those responsible for a Soviet-backed attempted putsch in Lithuania in early 1991 that killed 14 people and for the execution of eight border guards shortly afterwards.
This reached its climax last year, with a putsch in July that sent the opposition leaders into exile for several months, and was followed by the killing of over 100 people, crimes for which nobody has been punished.
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After Hizbullah staged a putsch against the pro-Western forces in the Lebanese government last May, rather than acknowledge that Hizbullah is now in full control over the government and the military, the US has showered Lebanon with money and guns.
On the subject of Cambodia's ASEAN membership, which was put off a year ago after Co-Premier Hun Sen executed a putsch against his partner, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, there seemed unanimous agreement: Membership would be granted by the end of the year.
Ethnic-Fijian aspirants living on the fringes of Suva, praying for an escape from the tedium of village life, saw in Mr Speight's putsch the promise of patronage and the chance to get rich in a state run by their own kind.
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