Word: putsch
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...very odd coup," the BBC dubbed it in a headline that certainly seemed to capture the quirkiness of the ongoing putsch on the tranquil South Pacific island of Fiji. But taking the prime minister hostage appears to be becoming less odd and more par for the course in some of Britain's former Pacific island colonies. With no end to the Fijian standoff in sight more than two weeks after coup leader George Speight and a handful of cronies first seized Mahendra Chaudry and 30 other civilians as hostages, the prime minister of the Solomon Islands on Monday found himself...