61.   However, the Central Intelligence Agency runs a modest covert operation to help overthrow Saddam and received advance word of the coup attempt.

62.   In his speech Tuesday, Chavez unabashedly paid tribute to his comrades from the coup attempt who listened on a Senate balcony.

63.   In both cases, the coup attempts were led by extreme Republicans.

64.   In the end, Silver beat back the coup attempt and stripped Bragman and his deputies of their leadership positions and salary stipends.

65.   In the end, Silver and his allies beat back a coup attempt, as was widely expected.

66.   It was punctuated in the middle by a coup attempt against Gingrich.

67.   It was Ramos, as armed forces chief and defense minister, who defended Mrs. Aquino against repeated coup attempts and preserved her fragile democratic government.

68.   Just a week ago, Gingrich seemed to employ Houdini-like skill to escape a coup attempt that implicated his top lieutenants.

69.   Kurdish officials have tried to portray the coup attempt as an American-led effort to overthrow Saddam, but administration officials strongly denied the claim.

70.   Kaunda was originally accused of plotting a bungled coup attempt last October.