Word: overthrew
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...overthrew a lot last year," Keyte said. "And that's what's happening when I'm wild this year--when you overthrow, you don't concentrate on the target...
...regime's defense. Amin appealed to the Organization of African Unity to persuade Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere to call off his invasion. But the OAU leaders, meeting in Kenya, made only a halfhearted attempt to do so. They seemed to agree with Milton Obote, whom Amin overthrew as Uganda's President in 1971. In Tanzania, where he has been living in exile, Obote declared, "Now is the time for Amin to pay the price of tyranny...
After years of living in silence in Tanzania, the man whom Amin overthrew as Uganda's President, Milton Obote, called on the Ugandan army to rebel against "this regime of terror...
...SAVAK to torture its prisoners, a masked militiaman prodded him and whispered, "Say the Shah, say the Shah." Nassiri wore a bandage on his head and talked as if his throat had been beaten. The station was flooded with calls protesting the appearance of an obviously injured man. "We overthrew the Shah because of his violation of democracy and human rights," complained a Tehran businessman. "It would be absurd to begin our republic by indulging in just such tactics...
...Sanjabi to the palace was a dramatic compromise for him. The founder of Mr. Sanjabi's party, Mohammed Mossadegh, almost ousted the Shah from power in 1953." The Times story reversed who ousted whom--in fact, the Shah regained the throne in 1953 when his CIA-backed coup overthrew the democratically elected Mossadegh government...