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...wave of violence comes a day after military commander Saw Maung overthrew the government of civilian President Maung Maung. The former president's whereabouts remain unknown...
Dukakis' multilateral outlook is most evident regarding Latin America. He often cites the summer of 1954, when he was living with a family in Peru at the time the CIA overthrew the left-leaning elected government of Guatemala. It was part of a pattern, he says. "Every time we intervened, we did so in the name of democracy. And almost without exception, the legacy of our intervention has been tyranny." The reasons: "We put ourselves above the law. We tried to go it alone. We tried to impose our views, instead of helping to build a democratic tradition...
...history and philology, Stone argues persuasively that the beloved Socrates was in reality a coldhearted, elitist, pro-Spartan snob who was openly contemptuous of Athens' vaunted democracy and favored totalitarian rule by a philosopher-king. Bloody political coups led by two of his best-known students, Alcibiades and Critias, overthrew democratic governments in Athens in 411 and 404 B.C. The threat of a third coup in 401, Stone argues, triggered Socrates' trial, which took place two years later...
...were together at a six-month special warfare course at Fort Bragg, N.C., and both saw action in + Viet Nam as unit commanders with South Korea's Tiger Division. In December 1979, after both had become generals, Roh's infantry division came to his friend's aid when Chun overthrew South Korea's ruling clique of senior military officers and eventually took over the country...
...first down, Glatz ran for five yards to the Crimson 32. Yohe stepped up on second down and overthrew Neil Phillips long. On third and five Yohe threw short to Glatz, and Alan Hall came on the field to punt into the wind...