Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...straw hat, he galloped about his Maryland-size realm on a shaggy pony, enlisting citizens' support in his bid for more control of Lesotho's domestic and foreign policies. Not surprisingly, such politicking alarmed Premier Chief Leabua Jonathan, who saw in the royal actions a plot to overthrow the new constitutional government...
Boumediene is even trying to patch up relations with Egypt's Nasser, who was so miffed by Boumediene's overthrow of President Ahmed ben Bella 18 months ago that he personally quashed a conference of neutral nations sched uled for Algeria. Last month Boumediene made his first state visit to Cairo, and suddenly the two Arab leaders were touring the capital like old friends-all smiles...
...huge arms cache in Hebron and, after a blazing gunfight that left one policeman dead, intercepted another truckload of weapons heading into Nablus. At an anti-Hussein demonstration in Damascus, Syrian Chief of State Noureddin Attassi promised Jordanians all the weapons they needed-not to fight Israel, but to overthrow Hussein. "Today," Attassi roared, "Jordan will be liberated and tomorrow Palestine...
Suddenly they had their answer. Ntare's Prime Minister Michel Micombero, 26, who had supervised Ntare's overthrow of his dad, announced that he had decided to chuck the monarchy altogether and rule the country himself. Fear immediately arose among his neighbors that he might invite back the Red Chinese, who were expelled by the old King in 1965 for meddling in Burundi affairs. Soon the capital of Bujumbura began to fill up with leftist emissaries from Nasser and from Guinea's ambitious Sékou Tour...
...moderate King Hussein, who is more or less caught in the middle between the Israelis and the Arab extremists, he had to listen to radio pleas from Syria and Egypt urging Jordan's 700,000 Palestinian refugees to overthrow their monarch. To get his country ready for any explosion, Hussein put his security forces on a round-the-clock alert; he began sending extra arms to police posts on the border, started drafting all men between 18 and 40 for 90 days of crash training and strung his tough, trusted Arab Legionnaires all along the frontier. His forces soon...