WORLD IN BRIEF : SUDAN : Junta Puts Down 2nd Coup Attempt
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For the second time in a month, Sudan’s military government crushed a revolt by junior army officers. The country’s military leader, Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan Bashir, said in a broadcast on government radio that loyalist forces arrested the rebels and maintained control of the East African nation. He did not give casualty figures or the number of arrests.
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