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...daughter of a wealthy ranching family, she had been married to Pedro Joaquin Chamorro for 27 years when he was assassinated in 1978, probably on the orders of dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. A year later, the Sandinistas overthrew Somoza, thanks partly to La Prensa's valiant editorials and the Chamorro family's money. Then the widow Chamorro watched in horror as the Sandinistas, whom she had mistaken for unorthodox social democrats, revealed the extent of their allegiance to Moscow and Cuba and their disdain for democratic politics...
...time had effectively seized power from the dying Mao Zedong. Two days later the Gang of Four, led by Mao's wife Jiang Qing, sacked Deng, the recently rehabilitated Senior Deputy Premier whom they suspected of masterminding the demonstrations. But after Mao died five months later, the military overthrew the Gang of Four and Deng returned to power...
With the game tied, 2-2, O'Connell--who played his seventh straight flawless game at shortstop--cracked the first pitch of the inning into left for a single. Eli starter John Bonfield overthrew second on a Tom Konjoyan sacrifice to advance O'Connell to second and then walked second sacker Jim Mrowka to load the bases with no outs...
...20th century's goriest conflicts. During its 3 1/2-year reign, the sternly Communist Khmer Rouge killed anywhere from 1 million to 2 million Kampucheans in a genocidal resettlement program. Up to another million fled, swarming into refugee camps across the border in Thailand. In 1979 invading Vietnamese troops overthrew the murderous Pol Pot. Since then, the Hanoi-backed government in Phnom Penh has been at war with a coalition of three rebel factions that includes as many as 35,000 fighters of the ousted Khmer Rouge...
...races. The Supreme Court decision followed the mysterious death of Zia in an airplane explosion in August, eleven years after he seized power. The elections will give Bhutto the long-awaited opportunity to return her party to the ruling position it held from 1971 until 1977, when Zia overthrew her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in a coup. Zia subsequently permitted Bhutto's execution to take place...