Word: overthrew
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...political clout that possession of nukes confers. Ukraine and some other republics fear they will be unable to resist Russian domination if they turn over responsibility for any of their nuclear arsenal to Yeltsin's government. The danger would become greater still if military or right-wing coups overthrew the present Kremlin and republic leaders, as could happen if winter food and fuel shortages touch off street riots. Talk of just such a coup is rampant these days in Moscow...
Although Giardi overthrew several of his targets, his passes were generally on the mark. He completed 14 of 23 passes (61 percent...
...fundamentally enormously hopeful events. If the immediate results are chaotic -- well, revolutions by their nature cannot be tidy. The trouble is that the most democratic revolutions can so easily degenerate into lasting chaos, out of which a new dictatorship can be born. Remember the February 1917 revolution that overthrew the Czar, the chaos that followed, and the November 1917 Bolshevik coup, which established the tyranny that has only now been broken -- maybe...
...Vietnam invaded Cambodia and overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime. For the following nine years, more than 200,000 Vietnamese troops occupied the country and kept the governemnt in power. Two years ago, most of the Vietnamese troops left Cambodia, but the current Hun Sen regime is still heavily dependent on Hanoi...
...Pact, with headquarters in Iraq. Its mission was to keep the Soviets out of the Middle East. Yet trouble came from within the region and even within the alliance. In 1956 Britain, a member of the pact, joined France and Israel in attacking Egypt. In 1958 a nationalist revolution overthrew the pro-Western monarchy of Iraq. The new regime immediately pulled out of the pact...