Word: overthrowe
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...Sadat-dictated peace approach, he might well face internal efforts to overthrow...
...grew up hating the colonial British. When the upper-class Military Academy was opened up in 1936 to all Egyptians-a decision that changed the future of the country-Sadat was one of 52 boys picked. So were Nasser and six other Egyptians who later banded together to overthrow King Farouk. During World War II, Sadat, still passionately anti-British, collaborated with the Germans. On one occasion he urged his fellow officers to blow up the British embassy; the cooler Nasser restrained...
...prefer a political overthrow...
...agency is in turmoil because at least 800 of its employees are to be "terminated." All are members of the CIA's 4,500-man Directorate of Operations, the clandestine branch whose activities, such as trying to overthrow governments and spying on U.S. citizens, have damaged the reputation of the CIA. But only a small minority of agents were involved in such skulduggery, and a far larger part of the directorate's job has been the basic covert gathering of intelligence about potential enemies. Among those being fired are veteran officers with distinguished careers as undercover agents abroad...
...best-armed nations in Africa, with a 22,000-man army, three MiG-equipped fighter squadrons and six tank battalions. Until the mid-1970s Ethiopia, under the late Emperor Haile Selassie, received substantial aid and arms from the U.S. But after the Emperor's overthrow in 1974 by a leftist junta, Addis Ababa's relations with the U.S. cooled. Despite their ties to Somalia, the Russians saw a chance to establish a presence in Ethiopia, which is almost ten times as populous as Somalia and whose ancient feudal society might prove more receptive to Soviet socialism over...