11.   He has promoted his fellow coup plotters and installed military officers in high positions, including as his chief of staff.

12.   In addition, two other former coup plotters were elected president of the Senate and governor of the important oil-producing state of Zulia.

13.   In fact, U.S. air support for coup plotters has often surfaced as a key issue in past conflicts around the world.

14.   Last year, a British-backed mercenary company, Sandline, drove the coup plotters from power and restored Kabbah to power.

15.   Of the coup plotters, one, Interior Minister Boris Pugo, committed suicide after the coup failed.

16.   The alleged coup plotters were quickly convicted.

17.   The coup plotters stopped short of using force.

18.   The coup plotters, hard-line conservative Communists from the KGB, the Defense Ministry and the Supreme Soviet, said they were trying to save the system.

19.   The coup plotters were defeated, and Russian communism hit rock bottom.

20.   They said that the United States could support coup plotters by extending the no-flight zone to cover Bagdhad and central Iraq.