11.   A few months ago it looked as if the military junta in Myanmar might ease its repressive rule slightly.

12.   A year ago this month, a widely publicized effort was even made to reinstall Paul as mayor and challenge the authority of the military junta headed by Cedras.

13.   After months of hand-wringing, Clinton sent troops to Haiti to restore a democratically elected president ousted by a violent military junta.

14.   Burma, ruled by a repressive military junta, is nearly bankrupt, in part due to swollen military spending.

15.   But Congress handed over power to a military junta.

16.   But it was the televised trial of former military junta leaders that captivated the nation.

17.   Embarrassed by its defeat, the military junta relinquished power to a democratically elected government.

18.   First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said the agreement by the Haitian military junta to leave that beleaguered island country was what President Clinton had both hoped and planned for.

19.   For its part, the military junta continues to whittle away at her supporters with arrests and prison sentences.

20.   For that she was accused of participating in a military coup to overthrow the military junta.