The military-led government stated its intention to restructure the political, economic and electoral systems.

Throughout the 1960s and most of the 1970s, the military-led governments of Honduras ran a state-sponsored and state-financed economy.

And State Department officials say increased American pressure could undermine President Musharraf's military-led government.

His characteristically conservative rule from 1969 to 1974 marked the apex of military-led non-democratic governments in Brazil.

In 1992, after the military-led government canceled parliamentary elections, which a radical Islamic party was on the verge of winning, civil war erupted.

Now, after the coup, its members have become a worrisome opposition to the military-led government.

They insisted that the military-led government had coerced the confession from Dr. Khan so that senior military officials could come out clean.

A result, many say, will be the resurgence of military-led governments and a spread of misery and chaos throughout the continent.

In recent decades, Brazil's military-led governments invested heavily in bridges, highways, dams, railroads and telephone systems.

The provisional military-led government in Georgia said the ousted President, would probably seek asylum in France.