Both had spent the coup attempt with the rebel officers.

The officials provided conflicting accounts of the Administration's contacts with the rebel officers.

The night of death would be followed by quickly hunting down any rebel officers surviving.

Despite the above developments, the position of the rebel officers was less secure than it seemed.

Finally a settlement seemed to have been reached when the rebel officers asked to Mazaki on the 27th.

Following the meeting, both Mazaki and the rebel officers were relieved.

The senior rebel officers have already been appointed to the new corps.

At the last minute, the hanging is interrupted when a rebel officer arrives.

"By the end of the day we will control the entire country," one rebel officer bragged in a television broadcast.

"We are trying to lead them to peace," one rebel officer said of negotiations with a government military unit.