The envoy, Gen. Amadou Toumani Touré, a former president of Mali who has mediated during previous army mutinies against Mr. Patasse, met the president at his residence, which is guarded by Libyan soldiers who helped put down the coup.
In April 1919, while Jean Bart was helping to defend Sevastopol from the advancing Bolsheviks, her crew mutinied, along with that of the France, but the mutiny collapsed when Vice-Admiral Jean-Françoise-Charles Amet agreed to meet the mutineers' main demand to take the ships home.
There, Verdugo was met with a mutiny, which he ended by distributing 40,000 escudos amongst the mutineers, disbanding an undisciplined German regiment and giving license to two companies of men-at-arms to join Farnese's army in Hainault.
This week, the seemingly mild-mannered Arizona coach, John Mackovic, faced a mutiny when 40 players, about half the team, met with the university president, Peter Likins, and complained of severe verbal harassment.
The mutiny was a failure.
The mutiny was easily crushed.
The mutiny had been spontaneous.
Yet the mutiny has intensified.
