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The secretary general of Sambi's party, Ahmed el-Barwane, was one of two people arrested there while another protest took place at Mbeni, the home town of Mohamed Ali Soilih, who Azali defeated for the presidency two years ago.
During Soilih's brief rule, he faced seven additional coup attempts until he was finally forced from office and killed.
Nationalization, even during the Soilih years, has been limited.
On 13 May 1978, Bob Denard returned to overthrow President Soilih and reinstate Abdallah with the support of the French, Rhodesian and South African governments.
Soilih began with a set of solid socialist ideals designed to modernize the country.
Soilih did expropriate the facilities of a foreign oil company, but only after the government of Madagascar took over the company's plants in that country.
The three remaining islands, ruled by President Soilih, instituted a number of socialist and isolationist policies that soon strained relations with France.