Word: overthrowers
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Peacekeepers from eight West African nations used tanks and gunboats to defeat a faction of the former Liberian army that tried to overthrow an interim government; it was the latest outbreak of fighting in Liberia's five-year-old civil war. The attempted putsch came three days after the country's three main warring factions signed a United Nations-approved peace pact...
...Persian Gulf War once the U.S.-led alliance pushed Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. But internal conflicts like Somalia -- and Haiti -- require a "realistic assessment" of the "desired end state," Flournoy's report says, "and whether military forces can play a useful role" in achieving it. Will the overthrow of the Haitian junta be enough -- or will it take creation of a working government and economy...
Increasing the tension level were fears that dissent could turn into violence. Islamic fundamentalists who are seeking to overthrow Mubarak warned delegates not to come to Cairo. In response, the government deployed a 14,000- strong police force with the sole assignment of protecting the expected 20,000 conference participants. But no one could guarantee peace in the streets -- or any kind of meaningful consensus inside the meeting hall...
General Valentin Varennikov, a former Soviet Deputy Defense Minister, was acquitted of charges that he helped try to overthrow the government of Mikhail Gorbachev in August 1991. Varennikov was the only one of 12 defendants to refuse an amnesty offered by the Russian parliament earlier this year. The state prosecutor in the trial claimed that Gorbachev may actually have encouraged the plotters by not opposing them vigorously enough, a conclusion Gorbachev called "absurd...
...mock attack on an isolated airfield at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and "capturing" a port along the Gulf coast. The exercise, which one military expert described as a "final rehearsal," was similar to maneuvers conducted just before the U.S. invaded Panama in December of 1989 to overthrow Manuel Noriega...