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For a while, they lived in a ménage á trois with the valet de chambre, but the valet was arrested as an agent provocateur, following a coup d'état manqué, which turned out to be a débacle.
The same newspaper reported the "disappointment and grave concern" expressed by South African President Nelson Mandela over the detention without charges on Christmas Day of the Zambian founder-president and independence hero, Kenneth Kaunda, by the current Zambian president, Frederick Chiluba, who claimed that Kaunda had been implicated in an attempted coup d'état last October.
Following a bloodless coup in 1974 called the “Carnation Revolution,” Salazar’s successor, Dr. Marcelo Caetano, was overthrown and free elections were held.
At first, the Clinton administration hoped that Musharraf 's coup might create an opening for action on Bin Ladin.
NYT columnist A. M. Rosenthal--the paper's former South Asia correspondent--argues that the coup underscores the poverty of America's policy in the region, which has long favored the efficient Pakistan to the chaotic, but truly democratic, India.