1.   As demonstrators took to the streets of Caracas and other cities to demand the return of Chavez, loyalist soldiers took control of the presidential palace.

2.   Half an hour later, scores of gendarmes wrested away the state television building from loyalist soldiers, an event that also echoed the Serb revolt.

3.   Her idol is David Ervine, a former loyalist paramilitary soldier once jailed for bomb possession who now heads the Progressive Unionist Party.

4.   Bozize has denied he helped plan the coup, in which fighting raged in the capital for a week between mutineers and loyalist soldiers.

5.   Fears of more fighting between mutineers and loyalist soldiers backed by the Nigerians heightened Tuesday after fighters poured into the city from the countryside.

6.   Five mutineers and three loyalist soldiers were killed in gunbattles before the mutiny was put down.

7.   French troops who have been backing loyalist soldiers in the capital also have evacuated French citizens, but no numbers have been given.

8.   However, four policemen, three civilians and four Lissouba loyalist soldiers were killed last week in separate attack.

9.   Libya also sent several hundred troops to defend Patasse during the May coup attempt, when mutineers and loyalist soldiers battled each other for a week.

10.   Libya already sent several hundred troops to defend Patasse during the May coup attempt, when mutineers and loyalist soldiers battled each other for a week.