Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become Red China's leading Mao-based military strategist. His treatise, "Long Live the Victory of People's War," which was published last year, evoked startled interest in both Communist and non-Communist camps. Its thesis: that the poor nations of the world will isolate and overthrow the rich nations, just as China's peasants isolated and overthrew China's cities...
Mwami Mwambutsa IV, the Watutsi ruler of the kingdom of Burundi, did not seem like a man who would easily part with his throne. In fact, when the rival Bahutu tribesmen attempted to overthrow him last October, the Mwami and his men struck back so ruthlessly that at least 86 Bahutus were executed, including all of the elected officers of both houses of Parliament. Last week it seemed that the Mwami had lost his throne just the same. Not to the Bahutus. To his own son, Prince Charles Ndizeye...
Thus last week did Argentina's military announce the overthrow of President Arturo Umberto Illia, 64, the quiet, courtly country doctor who took office in 1963 and proceeded to do almost nothing for 32 months. The military sent Illia packing, off to his brother's home twelve miles north of Buenos Aires, dissolved Congress, the Supreme Court and all political parties, and announced the formation of a three-man junta. It is headed by Provisional President Juan Carlos Onganía, Illia's one-time army commander in chief who, until his resignation last November, was considered...
Equally irksome to the military was the gathering momentum of the Peronistas, the 3,000,000 diehard followers of Juan PerÓn who, through their strikes, demonstrations and exorbitant pay demands, have helped trigger the overthrow of three of the five Presidents (including Illia) who followed the deposed dictator. Under Illia, the Peronistas won 61 of Congress' 238 seats, triumphed in two of the last four provincial elections, and were an odds-on favorite to win the key provincial elections in Buenos Aires next March...
First Hints. The beginning of the end came last November, when Illia and Onganía had a falling out. A tough professional soldier who sticks rigidly to the traditional army code, Onganía is a man of quiet authority and determination. After President Arturo Frondizi's overthrow in 1962, it was Onganía as commander of the army's crack motorized cavalry corps who routed a military faction favoring old-style, jack-booted dictatorship, and who later paved the way for Illia's election in 1963. For his pains, Onganía was made...