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Cambodia 's second prime minister staged a successful coup against the country's first prime minister.
Finally, after 60 years of Spanish rule, Portuguese noblemen (aided by the French, then at war with Spain) organized a palace coup and restored independence.
While I'd love to be able to tell you that PBS was born in a Seven Days in May -type coup, and that Julia Child, Mister Rogers, and Jim Lehrer have been slipping us subliminal military propaganda since the beginning, Ledbetter doesn't develop his idea that the Cold Warriors co-opted PBS.
As the new military regime in Pakistan began court proceedings against the ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on corruption and kidnapping charges--he is accused of refusing to let the military coup plotters land as their plane was running out of fuel--the Times of India ran an editorial Friday saying that Gen.
2) If we don't lend the extra money, there will be financial meltdown, chaos, and maybe a coup.