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Show WORLD 12A Wednesday, June 24, 1992 Standard-Examiner Troops put down coup attempt in Georgia I BILISI but government troops loyal hevardnadze crushed the at- mpt. The government said 40 people Most of the dead were Gamsakhurdia supporters, said Georgian government press spokesman Boris Gazzayev, adding le were wounded in the seven- ack to retake the buildings. though Gazzayev said 40 people died, the Georgian news agency Iprinda reported only four were killed. The conflicting reports could not immediately be reconciled. The coup attempt was the most serious challenge to Eduard Shevardnadze’s government since the former Soviet foreign minister came to power in his native re+e ed to eorgia (AP) — Backers of t Zviad Gamsakhurdia Stage ac up today by seizing state down. When asked about the morning's events in Tbilisi, Shevardnadze told reporters on arrival in Dagomys: “Now everything’s OK,but it was bad.” Witnesses and journalists in Tbilisi said about 300 men armed with submachine guns and led by Walter Shurgaya, head of the pro-Gamsakhurdia National Disobedience Committee, broke into the state TV and radio center about 5 a.m. The Gamsakhurdia supporters also seized the state transmission tower on a hill outside the capital center and broad- public following the January ouster of Gamsakhurdia. Shevardnadze accused Gamsakhurdia’s supporters of trying to sabotage today’s talks with Russian President Bons N. Yeltsin on an ethnic conflict in northern Georgia, near the Russian border But Shevardnadze kept to his plans and flew to the Russian seaside resort of Dagomys for the talks after the coup attempt was put cast a statement saying “the legitimate government” had been restored. Commonwealth TV said Gamsakhurdia’s supporters wanted to maketheir appeal on television but didn’t know howto operate the equipment. Shevardnadze issued a statement shortly before national guard and police moved against the rebels. He appealed for calm and said the government was “taking emergency measures to put an endto this act of adventurism.” After the coup attempt was crushed, Shurgaya wasarrested. WORLD BRIEFS S. African president back to face crisis JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Faced with a breakdown in black-white political talks, President F.W. de Klerk convened an urgent Cabinet meeting today but declined to say how he would respond tothe crisis. The African National Congress on Tuesday night called off all talks 1) ending apartheid in responseto last week's massacre of more than 40 blacks in the Boipatong township south of Johannesburg. 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