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To: energyplay who wrote (52654)	8/26/2004 7:17:24 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

<<I wonder if one reason the coup failed>> They -most probably- had poor intelligence and it leaked. Someone (most probably the Americans) cut a deal with the incumbent government and screwed the coup perpetrators. There is no Tiny Rowland anymore in England. He knew how to do those things. <<The multi-millionaire businessman Roland 'Tiny' Rowland has died aged 80. The tycoon made his fortune in the mines of Africa before moving to Britain and buying the Observer newspaper. Tiny Rowland's Lonrho conglomerate became one of Britain's biggest companies, but he was defeated in a battle with Mohamed al-Fayed to acquire the Harrods department store.>>