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On 30 September 1965, a group of army conspirators, who claimed they acted to prevent a possible coup against Sukarno, kidnapped and killed six army generals.
Also, three more post-mortems on the botched House GOP coup.
It's that sort of chagrin that's behind the rumblings of a House coup all the papers report.
The armed forces finally overthrew him in a popular bloodless coup, known as the “Carnation Revolution,” on 25 April 1974.
Having served in two high-profile offices over the past 15 years ( Vanity Fair and The New Yorker ), Brown was well positioned for a run at Talk . She scored an early publicity coup by getting Hillary Clinton to appear in the magazine at its debut.