Even a successful coup and the installation of the civilian opposition might not guarantee an end to General Noriega's influence.

Indeed, there is no assurance that the civilian opposition would cooperate with the King.

"It looks like maybe they wanted basically to round up the civilian opposition and shake up the foreign journalists."

"Khin Nyunt has for some time looked for ways to gradually close the gap between the civilian opposition and the military."

Despite the civilian opposition to the army's plan, General Trudeau wrote that the army had no choice but to advocate its plans for a moon base.

"Those who do not hesitate to support foreign intervention, openly challenging and violating constitutional order, are no longer civilian opposition," Barricada said today.

Growing civilian opposition was centered in the labor sector, despite the renewed military occupation of the mines.

These are groups that have adopted the counterrevolutionary position, not the position of a true civilian opposition.

As regards the prisoners from the civilian opposition in Chad, it is good that there have been some releases, but much more needs to be done.

There was widespread agreement that the aftermath would include a major crackdown on the civilian opposition and a purge of the military.