| 1 | Many in the opposition viewed it as an attempted power grab by the military. | |
| 2 | She will be the highest-ranking visitor from the United States since the Burmese armed forces seized power in 1962. | |
| 3 | The risks to China are obvious: a new regime might prove no better even if a coup was successful. | |
| 4 | We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power. | |
| 5 | And rap, like other forms of Western culture, was despised by Gadhafi, who burned foreign musical instruments and books after he seized power in 1969. |