Word: overthrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pierre," an old friend asked him recently, "what are you trying to do? The papers say you want to take power and overthrow the Republic?" Poujade grinned. "Why not?" he said. "But . . ." his friend began. Poujade cut him off brusquely. "Why not?" he snapped...
...extravert, he liked to sing in his high tenor and to mystify people with his parlor magic tricks. He was soon well known around the county, and at 26 he went off to Albany as a Republican assemblyman. Together with a group of like-minded Young Turks, he helped overthrow the speaker, one Irving M. Ives (now U.S. Senator), and replace him with Oswald Heck, who, nearly 20 years later, is still speaker...
Pibul's fear of chaos comes from first hand experience. Until 1950-51, although Thailand had good relations with most foreign nations, chaos was the normal state of internal affairs. In the five years following the war, no less than eight attempts to overthrow the regime in power--usually Pibul's--were made. Civilian opposition to Pibul's military clique finally collapsed in 1948 after its leader, the strongest of the Marshal's opponents, Pridi Panamyong, was forced into exile in Red China. A series of conflicts with would-be rivals in the army and navy ended in June...
...Peru, Brigadier General Marcial Merino rebelled with his 10,000-man Jungle Division on the upper Amazon (TIME, Feb. 27), and said, in effect, to the country's other garrison commanders: "I move that we overthrow President Manuel Odria." Strongman Odria hastily shifted several doubtful generals out of high command. By last weekend it was clear to Merino that no one was going to second his motion. In a voice choked with suita ble emotion, he surrendered to the government by long-distance telephone from his headquarters in the river port of Iquitos, then took asylum in the Brazilian...
With Congressman David Vela, editor of the daily Impartial, leading the way, the opposition heatedly pointed out that even after the 1944 overthrow of Dictator Jorge Ubico no such drastic law was passed because, as Vela put it, "it would give legal weapons of oppression to the government." Vela said that President Carlos Castillo Armas is "a tolerant man, but let us remember that we are legislating not only for now but for the future as well-and the future may bring a capricious or oppressive President...