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President Samuel Doe claims that he has put down more than 30 coup attempts since he seized power, as Master Sergeant Doe, in an army uprising ten years ago. But the dictator's string of victories seems to have run out. A force of some 5,000 rebels last week captured the Roberts Field International Airport; occupied the Firestone rubber plantation, the country's largest private employer; and drew up on the outskirts of Monrovia, the capital. Refusing to resign or flee, Doe barricaded himself in the executive mansion with several hundred members of his Israeli-trained elite guard...
Saddam's first venture into subversive politics came in 1956 when, as a new member of the Baath Party, he participated in an abortive coup against King Faisal II. The task was completed two years later by military strongman Abdul Karim Kassem. When the Baathists fared no better under the new regime, Saddam was tapped by the party in 1959 to assassinate Kassem. That attempt also failed, but Saddam emerged a hero as stories circulated of how he had a companion dig a bullet from his leg with a penknife, then to Syria disguised as a Bedouin...
...crowd, carrying banners calling on workers to DEFEND SOVIET POWER and demanding the resignation of President Arnold Ruutel. When the protesters broke through a locked gate into the palace courtyard, Prime Minister Edgar Savisaar put out a radio call for help, crying, "We are being assaulted. This is a coup attempt." Crowds of Estonians rushed to the square and pushed the Russians...
...they faced the formidable Noreiga-Mattera combo, who sent them back to Cambridge in less time than it takes to stage a Latin American coup with a 6-3, 6-4 triumph...
When Lieut. General Hafez Assad seized power in Damascus in a 1970 military coup, he locked up many members of the previous regime, who are still behind bars. Eighteen people -- including Jadid, who was the strongman of the earlier government -- have remained in prison without charge or trial since their arrests between 1970 and 1972. Though the detainees, who are held in the notoriously grim Mezze military prison near Damascus, are allowed visitors, President Assad's government does not acknowledge that they are imprisoned...