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...other time was in Guatemala in 1964, when the democratically elected government was overthrown by a mercenary invasion openly backed with the CIA. The political process of reform and self-recognition in Guatemala was brutally interrupted to no one's benefit: Guatemala was condemned to a vicious circle of repression, that continues to this...
DIED. Muhammad Idris el Mahdi es Senussi, 93, first and only King of Libya for 18 years until he was overthrown in a coupled by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 1969; in Cairo. Hereditary leader of the Senussi sect of Islam, traditional rulers of what is now eastern Libya, he fled to Cairo a few years after the territory was occupied by Italy in World War I to lead the resistance against the Mussolini fascists. Idris' troops fought alongside the British Eighth Army in World War II, and in 1951, with British support, he was proclaimed monarch of the newly...
...President lashed out at Marxist-led Grenada last month before releasing classified satellite photos of a new international airport being built with Cuban aid. The island's government has been headed by Prime Minister Maurice Bishop since the repressive regime of Sir Eric Gairy was overthrown in 1979. To assess the threat, TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter traveled to the 133-sq.-mi. island. His report...
That particular dictatorship, as a number of the Louisville plays make clear, has been overthrown. Now, in the emerging sensibility of equality, men and women must find-new places for themselves and each other. It is a challenge eagerly faced by the five young people in A Weekend Near Madison. Four of them-David (William Mesnik), a psychotherapist; his wife Doe (Robin Groves), a short-story writer; his brother Jim (Randle Mell), a painter; and Jim's former girlfriend Nessa (Mary McDonnell), a singer-shared a giddy faith in revolution while at the University of Wisconsin in the early...
...emerge from colonial rule. Under the charismatic leadership of its first President, Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana gained independence from Britain in 1957. But poor planning and extravagant government spending soon undermined the economy, while incompetent officials and pervasive corruption eroded Nkrumah's popular support. In 1966 he was overthrown in a widely popular military coup. That revolt set the pattern for the future; in the succeeding 17 years Ghana has endured five such coups...