Word: overthrows
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United Press International wire services reported this morning that the South Vietnamese army and marines had announced the overthrow of strongman Gen. Nguyen Khahn in favor of Lieut. Gen. Tran Thien Kahn, currently South Vietnamese ambassador in Washington...
Since the 1960 overthrow and hanging of Strongman Adnan Menderes, Turkish politics has basically consisted of a feud between army-backed Premier Ismet Inönü and the opposition Justice Party formed by Menderes' resurgent followers. In municipal elections 15 months ago, the Justice Party won a startling 46% of the vote. Last week Menderes' ghost was on the go again...
Einstein shared Loeb's conviction that scientific truths illuminate some real world, and were not merely postulates of convenience. Yet Einstein's own work, like Loeb's contributed to the overthrow of that position. In 1927, the physicist Percy Bridgman questioned how it was possible that Newtonian theory, which had been accepted throughout the nineteenth century, could be overthrown. He answered, in brief, that Einstein had replaced Newton's absolute concepts--absolute space, absolute motion, absolute time--with concepts defined in terms of particular observers, such as time and length relative to an observer. The truth arrived at by these...
...show Leonhart the "evidence" on which the expulsion was based. Some observers believed that the action may have been linked to the crudely forged "documents" turned up last November by Tanzania Foreign Minister Oscar Kambona, which purported to show the U.S. as leagued with Portugal in a plot to overthrow Nyerere's government. A second theory was that Nyerere believed Carlucci and Gordon were behind the abortive Arab-backed coup that failed in Zanzibar last month...
...Robles important enemies among the same businessmen who actively supported his election. But the betting is that they will reluctantly go along. The alternative, of course, is to play into the hands of the agitators, who were marching around last week passing out left-wing leaflets calling for the overthrow of "the oligarchic government of Robles" and quoting fiery revolutionary slogans by Fidel Castro...