41.   They have little to lose by rolling the dice on a former coup plotter promising to shake things up.

42.   They said they would throw their votes in with the National Democratic party, headed by former coup leader Desi Bouterse.

43.   Two campaign workers who were putting up posters for a former coup leader who is running for president were shot in a Caracas slum.

44.   Yet Chavez also enjoys near-fanatical support among millions of poor people and is the most famous of the former coup leaders.

45.   Former coup maker Manoon Roopkachorn has been reinstated in the Thai military with his old rank of major general, the Bangkok Post reported Thursday.

46.   The rebels installed a military junta headed by Comorian Army Captain Ayouba Combo, a former coup plotter whom they freed from jail.

47.   Turkish police have arrested four people allegedly preparing to assassinate a former military coup leader who later became president, the Anatolia news agency said Thursday.