Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jordan's 21-year-old King Hussein boldly announced: "The crisis in Jordan is ended," relaxed the daytime curfew, and set out to try about 100 "Communists and fellow travelers" under martial law for seeking his overthrow. The U.S. Sixth Fleet wheeled round off Beirut and sailed away for the western Mediterranean, having made its point and enjoyed its shore leave. Eisenhower's Special Ambassador to the Middle East, ex-Congressman James P. Richards, after a last visit to Israel headed for home. Left glumly isolated and defeated in the first round, the Egyptian and Syrian press...
...Anglo-Jordanian treaty to an end. replaced the British subsidy by a pledge of financial help from Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (which only oil-rich Saudi Arabia has so far honored), and began a systematic purge of pro-Western and royalist elements in the civil service. The overthrow of Hussein himself seemed only a matter of time...
...general and his onetime boon companion, told Hussein that if he did not appoint Abdel Halim Nimr as Premier, the army would force him to. Hussein acted. On signal, his men spread word in Zerka that Communists headed by Abu Nuwar were about to seize the royal palace and overthrow the King. The Moslem Brotherhood took charge of the streets; the Bedouin garrison began attacking officers and an infantry unit known to support Abu Nuwar. They fought first with stones and rifle butts, later with bullets. Twelve men were killed or wounded in the melee. Then, as the desert warriors...
...Whig editor would have made improbable bedfellows. The Tribune, as Hale explains, was a "great New York family newspaper dedicated to the support of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, temperance, dietary reform, Going West and ultimately, Abraham Lincoln." Marx, arrogant, embittered, exiled from his native Germany, was dedicated to the overthrow of 19th century capitalism...
...been like a cat on the hot tin roof of satellite unrest. Two weeks ago the jumpy Ulbricht, unable to stand the heat any longer, alerted the Communist fire department. In a speech before the East German Socialist Unity (Communist) Party Central Committee, he detailed a nefarious plot to overthrow the regime, and named as the chief incendiary a youthful (34) professor and editor named Wolfgang Harich. It was the first time that Ulbricht has acknowledged renewed trouble in East Germany...