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Word: overthrows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deputies are paid about $700 a month. Communist Deputies hand over their entire salaries to the party, which then pays their taxes for them and doles back to all but the bigwigs as little as $143 a month apiece. Losing this steady income from the government it sought to overthrow, the Communist Party last week decided to economize, abandon three of its money-losing regional newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: In the Red | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...Nasution's moves nor publicly backs them, and therefore can take credit if things go well and avoid blame if they fail. As for 40-year-old General Nasution, an enigmatic soldier, he remains a man who has never, by word or gesture, shown sign of wishing to overthrow Sukarno. If the army's "middle way" works, there would be no need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Army's Middle Way | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...transition of power was peaceful, in contrast to Argentina (where President Arturo Frondizi was elected after the overthrow of Dictator Juan Perón), Brazil (where President Juscelino Kubitschek was permitted to take office only because of an army "preventive coup") and Venezuela (where an election is being held to replace a dumped dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Paycheck Revolution | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...something strange going on inside, and would then march in and arrest the owner. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah's Voice of Ghana told his people just what the mysterious roundup was all about. A plot, by something called the "Zenith Seven," to assassinate the Prime Minister and to overthrow the government had been uncovered, and the government was out to get 43 ringleaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: Uproot the Enemy | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...probably all go to oilless Egypt. Besides, Iraq's more than a million Kurds, a restless minority, have no desire to be drowned in a wider Arab sea. A month ago Kassem, unwilling to sit too hard on the only fellow conspirator privy to the timing of the overthrow of Nuri asSaid and the royal family, made Aref Ambassador to West Germany. But Aref, though he turned up at the Brussels Fair, never reported for duty in Bonn. And last week, against orders, he popped up back in Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Helpful Communists | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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