Fears that Mr Speight might spill the beans about other backers of the coup may also have played a role.
Surprisingly, his new cabinet gives important portfolios to Mahendra Chaudhry, Fiji's first prime minister of Indian descent, ousted in a coup in May 2000.
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Mr Zardari knows that if he tries to sack the army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, then he may well get the coup he fears.
Mr Gonzalez's reform-minded finance minister, Federico Zayas, tried again to push some economic measures through Congress after the failed coup in May, but got nowhere.
Nor will Sierra Leoneans wholeheartedly welcome the return of Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, their elected president, who has lived in exile in Guinea since a coup last May.
It financed a meeting for the exiled Sierra Leonean government this week, and Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, the country's elected president who was overthrown by a coup in May, has been invited to take Sierra Leone's chair in Edinburgh.
The carriers themselves remain players though, and another potential coup for Boeing may be on its way via that avenue.
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But ousting Feldman, who controls a 37% stake through supervoting shares, may require nothing less than a coup.
Mr Wahid must surely want to put a stop to any more coup rumours, and may have succeeded.
When the dust settles, though, the coalition may not strike them as such a coup.
But outgoing New York Rep. Bill Paxon, a veteran of the Gingrich's team who left the leadership in the wake of an aborted coup, says the game may have a new player, Deputy Whip Dennis Hastert of Illinois.
For many of those who decried the coup against Mr Zelaya, it may be that nothing in his presidency became him like the leaving it.
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According to the BioWare Blog, the DLC may be unlocked after you stop the Cerberus coup attempt, but before you attack Cronos Station (thus starting the end game).
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The May auction appears to be something of a marketing coup, given the timing of other race-car-related events in that part of Europe.
The biggest coup for ESPN on the new deal may be the ability to stream Monday Night Football and NFL-themed studio shows on mobile devices through the Watch ESPN app.
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Viktor Alksnis, one of the most prominent spokesmen for the Soviet old guard and leader of the Soyuz faction of the Supreme Soviet Parliament, became the latest in a series of prominent authorities on Kremlin intrigues to speculate openly that Mikhail Gorbachev may have been involved in orchestrating the recent abortive coup.
The Bush Administration may unwittingly be about to hand Gorbachev yet another foreign relations coup.
And Nike may add its swoosh to PBA bowling shirts, a marketing coup for the league.
After replacing Indonesia's first president, Sukarno, in the wake of a coup, he rattled off six re-elections before resigning in May, amid widespread riots and an economy in ruins.
The signing is a huge coup for east Belfast club Glentoran who pipped Linfield to the Premiership crown by a point last May.
It was the first strike by a U.S. drone aircraft since the May 11 election that brought to power Nawaz Sharif, the conservative former prime minister who was ousted in a military coup in 1999.
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