Word: overthrowing
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...know the ethnic background of the attackers. I do know the mood of the day - an atmosphere of boozing, marauding holiday, of norms suspended: a temporary overthrow of the authorities. The police - Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's famous tough guys - were in a lounging and permissive mode, as if, in the face of the crowds and heat and politicized cultural assertion, they had decided not to get involved. When people reported the attacks to police in the park, the cops seemed indifferent and evasive. And the bystanders were no help either...
...part used rivers to separate their respective territories, but drew a straight line in the vicinity of Badme to connect two rivers. That straight line disappeared from many maps after 1962 when Eritrea was incorporated into Ethiopia, but reemerged with the amicable secession of Eritrea in 1993, following the overthrow of Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam. Both countries insist Badme falls on their side of the geographically invisible line, and they appear willing to commit tens of thousands of lives to win the argument. "Everyone knows an arms embargo won't do anything to end the fighting because there...
...Trade Organization talks in the U.S. last December. But while fear of messy protests may have kept Castro away from Seattle, the exiles are being forced to confront the reality that he has, for the most part, broken out of the international isolation they had hoped would force his overthrow - and that's a bitter pill to swallow for the generation of exiles who have dreamed for decades of a triumphant return to their beloved homeland...
...generation ago, Al-Amin made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list by preaching the violent overthrow of the all-white power structure in places like Lowndes County. But by last week, when he was arrested by a deputy who is black--as are the sheriff of Lowndes County, the mayor and police chief of Atlanta and the two deputies he allegedly shot--that old system had been swept away, not by force but through patient protest and voting. How ironic that the heirs of the nonviolent revolution he walked away from now hold his fate in their hands...
...fiercely anti-American conservative opponents, had rebuffed U.S. efforts. But anti-American sentiment in Iran has a basis in the country's history - the U.S. brought Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi to power and then helped keep him there for decades before Iranians finally took to the streets to overthrow him. Hard-liners among them immediately seized the U.S. embassy and launched the hostage crisis in a deliberate effort to cut all ties with Washington and prevent it from having any influence over events in Iran. By acknowledging the error of U.S. support for the shah, Albright is offering reassurance that...