Word: overthrown
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...coalition does indeed suffer from a public relations problem: many of its contras (counterrevolutionaries) served in the unpopular National Guard under Somoza, who was overthrown by the Sandinistas in 1979. The extent of U.S. involvement with the F.D.N. remains unclear, but the CIA is known to be arming and training the contras so they can stage raids into Nicaragua from bases in neighboring Honduras. These connections, in fact, have cost the F.D.N. the potential support of other exile leaders, most notably Edén Pastora Gómez, a former Sandinista leader who now lives in Costa Rica...
...people" section is eternal. As long as there are people and intrigue, one E, Graydon Carter will continue to extoll the elite stars among us. And i will continue to flip directly to this section, no matter how many governments get overthrown. Joseph Stalin
...tried all means, we have knocked on all the doors [to try to end the fighting]," he said last week. Iraq has repeatedly stated that it was willing to negotiate a peace treaty with Iran. The chief obstacle, however, remains Khomeini's unconditional demand that Saddam Hussein be overthrown. Responded the Iraqi leader last week: "I am staying even if [the war] lasts another ten years." For the time being, the military and diplomatic stalemate seems to be total...
...politics, and those at first were mean. They were the politics of long frustration and new anger, and it was men who took the heat: as repressive husbands, lackadaisical fathers, selfish sex partners, exclusionary businessmen, blind-sided artists and perpetrators of a patriarchy that had to be overthrown. Even Shakespeare was a sexist for a little while. The press cut in on the dark carnival atmosphere, and in some measure contributed to it. On the occasion of a Miss America pageant, a marginal faction of young women threw their underwear into an Atlantic City, N.J., garbage can, attempting some clumsy...
...problem is that 90 percent of the political talent in many developing nations is outside of the establishment and will never play an leadership role unless a government changes, or more specifically, is overthrown. So then you have to ask yourself, does this Harvard educations really have any pure educational value? The answer for some I'm afraid...