Word: overthrew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, a handful of Quito Creoles rose up, overthrew Spanish rule for the first time in South America. It took three more revolts before Ecuador decisively crushed Spanish power on May 23, 1822. An officer named Juan José Flores became President, preaching freedom and practicing tyranny. He wrote three constitutions, all disregarded...
...Communist-lining President Jacobo Arbenz (1951-54) of Guatemala gave out land to 180,000 peasants, mostly by the direct method of telling them to go take what they wanted. Result: subsistence farming and land wars-and, incidentally, the beginning of the plot that overthrew the regime...
Plotters Without Plans. The regime the free officers overthrew was probably the most unpopular of any in the Middle East. With iron hand, old Nuri had suppressed the political ambitions of the middle class, banned student activity, outlawed trade unions, forbidden freedom of the press. Scorning any mass appeal, Nuri governed by alliance with several hundred semifeudal sheiks who held 94% of the land. Thus, though Iraq is the only Middle East country with plenty of both oil and water, its peasants were as wretched as any in all Asia. And though much of the $200 million-a-year revenue...
...just done. The second was to purge his army and his administration of people whom the Communists object to. This too is going on. The Reds demand vengeance against all who participated in the Mosul rebellion (TIME, March 23). Of the original junta of two dozen army officers who overthrew the monarchy, five have now been purged. About 120 officers above the rank of major have reportedly been retired. Thousands of civil servants have been removed from their posts...
Former officers of the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Study Disarmament yesterday denounced vigorously the motives and tactics of the new Council Against Appeasement, which overthrew the Study Committee in a "coup" Wednesday night...