Word: overthrown
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...taught civil law and was law school dean in the 1950s. He suffered a painful lesson in political repression in 1956 when he was imprisoned for opposing General Marcos Péréz Jiménez. After the Péréz Jiménez dictatorship was overthrown, Aguilar became Minister of Justice under the new Democratic Action government...
...Harvard professor and admissions officer ran into a slight problem when they were in Surinam last week, continuing their eight-year study of the bush people of that country. Nothing major--the government was just overthrown...
Scoffed Amoakon Thiemele of the Ivory Coast: "Moscow had the brazenness to proclaim that it had come in at the request of the overthrown government." Lamented Nigeria's B. Akporode Clark: "No country had assisted the Third World more than the Soviet Union. Thus Nigeria has now felt a great sense of disappointment." One after the other, the delegates lashed out at Moscow. It was almost without precedent as a show of anti-Soviet sentiment among the Third World countries...
...Soviet divisions moved into Afghanistan, the iron fist behind a coup that ended the three-month-old regime of President Hafizullah Amin. The unfortunate Amin, 50, who had turned out to be a more independent-minded nationalist than Moscow wanted, thus became the third leader of Afghanistan to be overthrown and killed within the past 20 months. In his place the Soviets installed Babrak Karmal, 50, a former Deputy Prime Minister who had long been considered a Russian prot?...
...either Marxists or conservatives would have them. From that point on. Marxists are quick to point out. American radicalism no longer qualified as "leftism," and instead has been a series of small attempts to deal with single problems, problems that cannot be solved until the whole system is overthrown...