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	Coup d'état - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An abortive and botched veto coup occurred in Venezuela in 2002.
		Veto coups and guardian coups tend to be led by senior officers.
		In cases where the coup is led by junior officers or enlisted men, the coup is also a mutiny which can have grave implications for the organizational structure of the military.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coup (2307 words)

	Counting Coup in Ancient Ways and Courtroom Days
		Coup is not permitted there—responsibility and justice triumph.
		If coup by indemnification is the remedy for the joint and several liability of joint tortfeasors, then it more than cures the disease of too little money by giving us the worse disease of deliberate reward for wrongdoing.
		Beginning with this simple contract that counts no coup, the skills of an army of the darkly-suited and the weight from large chunks of economic and political advantage are thrown against every party who stands a half head shorter.
	www.aepronet.org /pn/vol4-no1.html (5005 words)

	The Militant - June 12, 2000 -- How Washington sponsored 1953 Iran coup
		The coup began the night of August 15 after a reluctant shah, with the memory of Sieh Teer still fresh in his mind, under "relentless pressure" from Washington, signed a decree replacing premier Mossadegh with Gen. Fazlollah Zahedi, whom the CIA agents had groomed for the job.
		The 1953 coup established the shah as a key prop of U.S. domination in the Mideast for a quarter century.
		These and other well-known facts about the CIA-orchestrated coup are recorded in a "secret history" of these events that the New York Times reported on in a feature article by James Risen in its April 16 issue.
	www.themilitant.com /2000/6423/642370.html (1722 words)

	Sioux Indian Dance Sticks - Coup Sticks
		He could count coup by dashing into the enemy's village and striking a tepee or lodge and then was said to have "captured" the tepee.
		Coup or dance sticks are made according to an individual's preference - each dancer or warrior created his coup sticks to be uniquely his own.
		The coup or dance stick is usually an actual stick that is adorned with rawhide, fur, antler, beads or feathers.
	www.fourwindsnp.com /dance_coup_sticks (302 words)

	TomPaine.com - What's In A Coup?
		In other words, the Bush administration was not just lying about what it knew, but actively joining the coup leaders in their short-lived attempt to convince the media and the world that a "transitional civilian government" had legitimately seized power in order to defend the public from alleged state violence.
		After the coup failed, the NED continued to fund opposition groups—-including some led by supporters of the coup—as they tried to recall President Chavez in a referendum on August 15 of this year.
		Yet on April 12, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer gave the coup leaders' version of events—that violence at the demonstrations had led to Chavez' "resignation," and that the government was responsible for the violence.
	www.tompaine.com /articles/whats_in_a_coup.php (719 words)

	The CIA in Iran - 9/11 - Global Policy Forum
		According to Professor Mark Gasiorowski of Louisiana State University, the coup was stage-managed meticulously by the C.I.A. It prepared the groundwork for the coup by subordinating various important Iranian political actors and using propaganda and other instruments to influence public opinion against Mossadeq.
		The history says agency officers orchestrating the Iran coup worked directly with royalist Iranian military officers, sent a stream of envoys to bolster the shah's courage, directed a campaign of bombings by Iranians posing as members of the Communist Party, and planted articles, editorial cartoons and fake interviews in the Iranian press.
		In due course of time, TPAJAX became the blueprint for a succession of C.I.A. plots to foment coups during the Cold War.
	www.globalpolicy.org /wtc/targets/2003/0528cia.htm (1042 words)

	THE IRANIAN: History, Tudeh & 1953 coup, Maziar Behrooz
		These letters, four in all and undated, were written after the coup and depict the state of internal situation of the party in 1953-1954 and the relationship between the executive committee members and represented a request for mediation by the leadership abroad.
		First is the official account of the imperial regime on the necessity of the coup and the dismantling of the Tudeh or memoirs of active members of the coup which are mostly repetition of the former.
		The coup not only arrested Iran's gradual development toward asserting its national independence under a nationalist leadership, it also put an end to constitutional processes in Iran as Shah Muhammad Riza Pahlavi (r.1941-1979) was brought back to power and moved to consolidate power under his own autocratic rule with clear disregard for Iran's monarchical constitution.
	www.iranian.com /History/2001/November/Tudeh (8808 words)

	Gibert Wesley Purdy: The Theater of Coup
		Carl, a colonel in the Haitian military, had been a participant in the first coup against Aristide in 1991, and a member of the Haitian team that negotiated the agreement, with Jimmy Carter and General Colin Powell, during the Clinton Administration, to restore Aristide to the presidency.
		Not long after the December 17 coup attempt, he was arrested for having overstayed his visa, and became an inmate at the Krome Detention Center, in Miami.
		Among the members of the coup that managed to escape was the assistant chief of police Guy Philippe.
	www.haitiaction.net /News/gwpGPhil.html (2810 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		"stroke of the state." Coup de grâce is 1699, lit.
		kolaphos "a blow, slap." Coup d'étate is 1646, from Fr., lit.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?term=coup (42 words)

	COUP 2K
		Luttwak explains that a coup "operates by taking advantage of this machine-like behavior: during the coup because it uses parts of the state apparatus to seize the controlling levers; afterwards because the value of the 'levers' depends on the fact that the state is a machine."
		Normally, a coup does not seek to destroy the basic structure of the existing government, which is more typical of a revolution or a war for liberation.
		And indeed, the popular conception of a "coup d'etat" is of a violent uprising, usually by the military, with shooting in the streets, mass arrests, secret executions and torture.
	www.lumpen.com /coup2k/coup2k-all.html (9967 words)

	The Coup - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Formed in the early '90s, the Coup were obviously influenced by the black power rhetoric of "conscious" rappers like Public Enemy and KRS-One, but they were perhaps even more inspired by a heavy-duty, leftist reading list that included Marx and Mao.
		The Coup were one of the most overtly political bands in rap history.
		Lead rapper/producer Boots (born Raymond Riley) was involved in political activism long before he was a musician; his fervent dedication to social change was the overriding influence on every Coup album.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,417987,00.html (454 words)

	Coup d'Taco
		Coup d'Taco is a DJ collective that makes two-hour long, eclectic mixes for your listening pleasure.
		Sorry folks, but the Coup d'Landlord needs to come and fix the electricity before we get up and running again.
		New DJs, new music, same fun here at Coup d'Taco.
	coupdtaco.blogspot.com (407 words)

	Topical Words: Coup
		And the two-seater cars called coupés derive their name from it, since the original early nineteenth-century French term for a small carriage was a carosse coupé, a cut-off carriage, a version of an older vehicle called a berlin with the back seats taken out.
		“Coup crisis in Pakistan,” the British newspaper the Guardian announced in its front-page headline on Wednesday.
		Coupon came from the same source in the nineteenth century—a certificate which could be cut out and redeemed.
	www.worldwidewords.org /topicalwords/tw-cou1.htm (432 words)

	The August Coup
		The coup of August 1991 was timed to prevent the signing of the new Union Treaty which would have fundamentally recast the relationship between the center and the republics in favor of the latter, and was scheduled for August 20.
		In 1917 these were the Red Guards mobilized by the Bolsheviks; in 1991, it was Boris Eltsin, President of the Russian Federation, whose demonstrative resistance to the coup enhanced his popular support.
		Reluctantly, he agreed to Eltsin's dissolution of the Communist Party which was held responsible for the coup and resigned as the party's General Secretary.
	www.soviethistory.org /index.php?action=L2&SubjectID=1991august&Year=1991 (393 words)

	Voices From a Soviet Coup
		Now, when the coup has become an historical juncture that marks the end of Soviet history, whatever signs or warnings that might be read into the material presented here have gained, rather than diminished in value.
		When the coup collapsed, Yeltsin and the other government and republican leaders reaped the benefits of the aftermath, emerging vastly more powerful and better positioned to implement the reforms from which they had always accused Gorbachev of backing away.
		However the Emergency Committee underestimated Yeltsin's character and his ability to generate the impression that the coup, despite the Committee's protests to the contrary, was not at all about bread and sausage but was a blow against them, the people.
	www.geocities.com /jjirik (10246 words)

	Gateway Pundit: Army Coup d'état in Mauritania!
		Mauritania, a sparsely populated nation on the northwestern edge of the Sahara, is strictly regulated by Taya, who took power in a 1984 military coup and tried to legitimize his rule in the 1990s through elections the opposition says were fraudulent.
		Taya has survived several coup attempts during his 20-year reign, but only the 2003 effort to overthrow him had made it past the planning stage, marked by several days of street fighting in the capital.
		It was not immediately clear whether the moves signaled a coup attempt was under way.
	gatewaypundit.blogspot.com /2005/08/army-coup-dtat-in-mauritania.html (760 words)

	COUP Homepage
		COUP creates, organizes and executes many of the annual social events that are synonymous with the social culture at the University of Chicago.
		As a board member one is in charge of specific operations within COUP, for example the marketing team is responsible for designing and ordering posters, creating t-shirts all with the goal of publicizing COUP events to a wide audience.
		While all board positions are currently filled, there is still the opportunity to sign up as a volunteer for COUP events (which of course gets you a higher chance of becoming a board member next year).
	coup.uchicago.edu /about.shtml (341 words)

	Whose Coup?
		Although Chávez has preached reconciliation since his return to power, many of his staunchest supporters claim the coup simply confirmed their belief that the country's wealthy business leaders are in league with the US to prevent the president from pursuing his populist agenda.
		Chávez himself has fueled the popular speculation about Washington's role in the coup, claiming that he saw a plane with US markings at the remote island military base where he was held by backers of the coup.
		New allegations about US involvement in the coup appear regularly in the Venezuelan press, allegations which are routinely rejected by an increasingly harried US embassy in Caracas.
	www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2002/05/chavez_coup.html (955 words)

	Coup in Venezuela: An Eyewitness Account
		This coup shows once again that democracy in Latin America is a matter of ruling class preference, not a matter of law.
		The orchestration of the coup was impeccable and, in all likelihood, planned a long time ago.
		First of all, the military is saying that the main reason for the coup is what happened today, April 11.
	www.commondreams.org /views02/0412-08.htm (1098 words)

	BBC - BBC THREE - 3 Investigates: Thatcher and the Failed Coup
		It explores the idea that the coup plotters were also lured into a trap.
		But this film blows the lid off the coup, meeting the key players and dishing the dirt that no-one else knows.
		During the process, the team met intelligence officers, top ranking US senators, diplomats, men who were approached to take part in the coup and more.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcthree/tv/3_investigates/mark_thatcher.shtml (322 words)

	August Coup on Encyclopedia.com
		The August Coup resulted in a minimal loss of life (3 deaths in Moscow and 3 in the Baltic States), the end of the CPSU's dominance, and hastened the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
		The coup collapsed as the Committee found itself lacking either the will or the loyalty of the military necessary to put down the burgeoning resistance movement.
		Outspoken Kremlin aide calls Yukos case biggest event since failed 1991 coup
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/augustc1o.asp (712 words)

	Worldandnation: Armed forces still simmer in Venezuela
		Though he survived the April 11 coup thanks to the support of loyal officers who came to his rescue, Chavez remains deeply unpopular, especially among the armed forces.
		But dozens of lower-ranking officers are also said to be under investigation for either supporting the coup or failing to display sufficient loyalty to the president.
		Rather it was yet another disturbing sign of military discontent in the aftermath of a short-lived coup in April against President Hugo Chavez.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/06/08/Worldandnation/Armed_forces_still_si.shtml (1221 words)

	Electronic Briefing Book: The Secret CIA History of the Iran Coup
		They indicate that the British played a larger—though still subordinate—role in the coup than was previously known, providing part of the financing for it and using their intelligence network (led by the Rashidian brothers) to influence members of the parliament and do other things.
		The CIA described the coup plan as “quasi-legal,” referring to the fact that the shah legally dismissed Mossadeq but presumably acknowledging that he did not do so on his own initiative.
		There is not much in the NYT article itself that is not covered in my article on the coup (“The 1953 Coup d’Etat in Iran” published in 1987 in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and available in the Gulf2000 archives) or other sources on the coup.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB28 (1751 words)

	CNN.com - Thousands of Venezuelans mark anniversary of Chavez's failed coup - Feb. 5, 2004
		Dozens of civilians died during the coup attempt, which Chavez said sowed the seeds of a popular revolution against a "false democracy" marked by corruption and resentment among Venezuela's impoverished majority.
		This polarized South American nation had a brief coup in 2002 and a general strike in 2003.
		Thousands of Venezuelans donned symbolic red berets and marched through the capital's streets Wednesday to mark the 12th anniversary of a failed coup by current President Hugo Chavez.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/americas/02/04/venezuela.coup.anniversary.ap (484 words)

	COUP - a documentary film about Turkey's military interventions and coup d'etats - 1960, 1971, 1980, 1997
		COUP examines the degree to which abstract ideals (such as "freedom of speech" and "human rights") are actually applied in a country facing political exigencies.
		COUP, their digital-format documentary, incorporates rare archival footage as it examines the collision between military authority and civil action in Turkey.
		Several who participated in the 1960 coup are well into their 80's, making this film a great chance to preserve their thoughts and a wonderful window into their times.
	elifsavas.brianfelsen.com /coup (3386 words)

	TRINICENTER.COM - The death and resurrection of Hugo Chavez
		But the counter coup would not have materialized without the popular mobilization throughout Venezuela, and especially the people of Caracas, who took to the streets, surrounded the presidential palace, and, joined by the soldiers, demanded Chavez back.
		The second message of the coup is directed to the U.S., which finds itself again with egg yolk dripping from its face.
		He ought to remember that as he tries to rethink his role as president after the coup.
	www.trinicenter.com /world/venez/lessons3.shtml (1396 words)

	Chávez's Resurrection By June Thomas
		Either coups are organized from there or they are sponsored and protected by the Yankees." But despite all the premonitions and parallels with CIA-sponsored coups in Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), and Chile (1973), there's no concrete evidence.
		Skeptics couldn't help but note that the coup occurred the very week Saddam Hussein announced a unilateral suspension of Iraqi oil exports and when there were anti-American protests around the Middle East.
		Authoritarian he may be, but since his failed coup attempts in 1992, Chávez has been ballot-box crazy.
	www.slate.com /id/2064467 (954 words)

	BBC NEWS World South Asia Pakistan after the coup: Special report
		A year after the coup, the military authorities in Pakistan are under pressure from the international community to speed up the restoration of democracy.
		A year after Pakistan's military coup BBC News Online looked back at the extraordinary events of October 1999 and the world's reaction to General Pervez Musharraf.
		Comments from BBC News Online readers immediately after the coup.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/472968.stm (265 words)

	ZNet Venezuela Lessons of the April Coup
		After the coup d'Ã©tat we have transferred soldiers, and the just thing is that the decisions have direct relation with the level of gravity of the implicated person.
		Those who really participated in the coup d'Ã©tat, those who had been planning it for quite some time and those who subscribed to the operation of manipulation and support of the coup are no more than 20 per cent, and perhaps I'm exaggerating.
		Some military chiefs involved in the coup took advantage of the situation to control the troops by means of hierarchy and lies.
	zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=45&ItemID=2842 (7017 words)

	VENEZUELA: OPPOSITION FAILS TO OVERTHROW PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ
		Seriously misjudging both his internal support and world reaction to the coup, within 24 hours Carmona abolished the 1999 Constitution, fired the justices of the Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (TSJ), the Fiscal General, the Contralor General, the Defensor del Pueblo, and members of the Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE).
		It also provided a dress rehearsal and allowed those plotting the coup to see which military units could be relied upon and which could not.
		Carmona and other coup leaders will be charged with conspiracy to wage a military rebellion, Cabello said.
	www.unm.edu /~noticias/noticias/LADB-venezuela-article-in-las-noticias.htm (1846 words)

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