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On the lookout for any contagiously progressive movement, the Austrians helped Bourbon King Ferdinand of Naples crush an 1821 revolt for constitutional monarchy and foiled a similar uprising in Piedmont.
Many well-known figures contemplating their posthumous selves have been foiled in exercising control over their literary remains.
A separate Times item reports that yesterday morning Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala foiled an attempt to rob her at a bank ATM and gave the police a getaway car license plate that directly led to the arrest of three suspects in the crime.
Egypt foiled a 1954 plot to discredit Egyptian ultranationalists by planting bombs in Cairo buildings.
They were foiled when French anti-terrorist commandos stormed the jet as it was parked and killed the terrorists.