Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suzman also discounts the posibility of violent overthrow from within. The security laws are so strict that they make the organization of an African uprising impossible. This discouraging analysis, however, does not mean that Mrs. Suzman forecasts no change for the future. Instead she predicts that while it may take a great deal of time, a certain amount of integration will be forced on the Afrikaners by economic necessity. When the Africans start moving into lower level professional jobs, it is her hope that there will be some political concessions as well...
...next month aimed at ending the revolt of Somali tribesmen in Kenya and Ethiopia. While Haile Selassie urged an armed assault on the white-supremacist government of Rhodesia, the delegates more realistically decided only to increase their financial support for bands of black "freedom fighters" who seek to overthrow the regime. As for the Congo's white mercenaries, entrenched in the border town of Bukavu, the heads of state demanded that they get out of the country and promised them safe conduct, but they also pledged to drive them out by force if necessary...
Diem's trust in Thieu was misplaced. Only eleven months later, the young colonel led one of the 5th Division's regiments in the coup against Diem. In the wake of Diem's overthrow, Thieu won his general's stars and the secretary-generalship of the junta that took over...
...other way, another band of N.L.F. guerrillas made off with yet another member of the government, the Sultan of Lower Yafa. By week's end, the National Liberation Front-at present the stronger of the rebel groups-claimed it had gained control of ten states and would soon "overthrow the rest of the reactionary feudalists." An eleventh state had fallen to F.L.O.S.Y., and only five-plus Aden itself-remained under any form of federation control...
...city, arrested more than 100 colonels and generals suspected of discontent. The dragnet also picked up the former War Minister, the former director of military prisons, four parliamentary Deputies and the government information chief. No hard evidence was offered to suggest that the arrested officials were actually plotting to overthrow the government...