Word: overthrew
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...State's next chance to tie was botched when Webb overthrew Benme Bolton, on a cross-court pass with 33 seconds left...
...modern history has been a saga of coups and countercoups. In 1958 Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser merged his country with Syria to form the United Arab Republic, but the union lasted only 3½ years. In 1963 the Arab Socialist Resurrection (or Baath) Party overthrew President Nazem Koudsi and seized power in Damascus...
...rain came in the night and I was drenched," complained the Irish-educated lawyer, still indignant. "I need a vacation." Indeed, in the span of three three weeks, Radix, 41, has been imprisoned twice-first by the ad hoc Revolutionary Military Council (R.M.C.), the junta that overthrew and killed Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, then (for "spreading bad will among the people") by the U.S. forces that overthrew the R.M.C. Says Radix of Grenada's last month: "It was better theater than Shakespeare...
...revives memories of the Vietnam war. However, unlike the reformist left which cries "No more Vietnam!" because they don't want another losing war for U.S. imperialism, the SYL says Vietnam was a victory! For Marines, "our boys" were the Vietnamese who defeated U.S. imperialism on the battlefield and overthrew capitalist rule. This is act the case in Lebanon whose no side is fighting imperialism. On the contrary, she PLO. Jumblait and Germayel are all jockeying for sponsorship from one imperialist power or another...
...might very well be leading Grenada on a moderate leftist course today, supported by some to the light he had previously spurned. Instead, the myopic U.S. policy squashed whatever hope there was for a center-left government in Grenada, and gave impetus to the more extreme Marxists who overthrew Bishop. Such criticism of past U.S. foreign policy mistakes may be irrelevant for the present problem in Grenada, but it should serve as a powerful warning to avoid similar blunders elsewhere in the future...