Word: overthrew
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...Path Down. In his early days, Rojas' peacemaking might have worked. After he overthrew Dictator Laureano Gómez in 1953, he was hailed as the savior of Colombia. But one year later Rojas' tragic flaw-the strongman's inability to accept criticism-began to show through. With a heavy hand he began censoring newspapers, finally suppressed Bogotá's two leading dailies, El Tiempo and El Espectador. From there his path led only downward. His soldiers and cops shot down political opponents and students. By spending uncounted millions on arms and post-exchange luxuries aimed...
...Admire. In the beginning, when Nasser's Free Officers overthrew corrupt and fat King Farouk, and shortly thereafter displaced Mohammed Naguib, their pipe-smoking front man, Nasser, an assistant postmaster's son and professional soldier, seemed a bright hope for a new Egypt. His smile was disarming; he confessed he knew little about running a country, but he was a plain man, plainly honest, eager to end the effete and selfish rule of the pashas. Fighting in the losing Palestine war he became convinced that his country's real problem was not Israel but the poverty...
...first Elizabeth, when most Englishmen were sick of blood spilled over theological differences. They were to find that theology disguised as politics could be even bloodier. Churchill argues that ancient English liberties reposed in the monarch, the church and Parliament-but that Parliament, when it overthrew the others, could be a worse tyrant than either...
...courage, anger and desperation that makes men wager their lives for an ideal fired Hungary into revolution last week. Unarmed, unorganized, unaided from outside, not even fully aware at first of what might be involved in their deeds, the Hungarian people rolled back the tide of Communism. They overthrew a government. They took on the Soviet army. They fought well and long enough to win at least the pledged right to be free of Moscow dictation and free of one-party dictatorship. I hey suffered by the thousands and died by the hundreds, and if, in the end, the strength...
...Peru. What probably will tip the balance is the under-the-surface support of APRA, the only real political party in the country. Ironically enough, APRA (a word in its own right in Peru, formed by the initials of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance) is the party that Odria overthrew and outlawed in 1948. But APRA's voting strength seems to have survived...