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  • Within months, he fled to the usa after being overthrown by a bloody military coup.
  • Chile ( 1973 ) - orchestrated a coup, killing president allende who had been popularly elected.
  • Michael howard, who attained the position in an almost ethereal bloodless coup, has left the party in rather a mess.
  • Coup d'etat, from the right or the left.
  • She'll stage a boardroom coup and leave him weeping in the dust.
  • But with 1961 & failed 1963 syrian coup, shifted base back to beirut.
  • Now there is talk of an attempted coup by members of his own party to force him out.
  • Coup d'état like that of 1799.
  • The liberal provisional government which took control was then forced out of office by a bolshevik coup in october of that year.
  • Some of trotsky's supporters pleaded with him to organize a military coup.
  • America had only recently installed the shah as ruler of persia after a cia-backed coup overthrew the previous government in 1953.
  • Coup d'état and deposed the viceroy, thus preventing a reasonable compromise.
  • The 1936 olympic games in berlin were a propaganda coup for hitler.
  • They first gained prominence because of the abortive coup they staged against fujimori in september 2000.
  • Coup d'etat for march 1917.
  • It would only take a border war, or a palace coup gone wrong, to produce a mushroom cloud.
  • King juan carlos helped defeat a military coup in 1981.
  • Coup plotters were the men who met on jekyll island in 1910.
  • A us-backed coup against him was badly botched in 2002.
  • Coup attempt fails.

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