Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whence the Wherewithal? From the way he talks, Bosch sounds like everything the Dominican Republic needs, and right now it needs plenty. Two years after the overthrow of Dictator Trujillo, more than 20% of the country's labor force is still unemployed or underemployed, the per capita growth in gross national product is almost at a standstill, and the illiteracy rate stands...
...other chief of state south of the border has been under sharper attack from the extremes of left and right or fought them all off more courageously. From the moment Betancourt was elected to office in 1958 after the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the Communists and a gaggle of the discontented have done their best to topple his government. In the economic fallout that came after the corrupt dictatorship's fall, there were many grievances to exploit; Communist-fired mobs roamed the capital; Communist gunmen murdered policemen, started backland guerrilla uprisings, even infiltrated...
...short-lived merger with Egypt in the United Arab Republic. That left Nasser without a single Arab ally, and surrounded by such virulent enemies as Iraq's Dictator Kassem and the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Then came last month's Iraqi revolution and the overthrow of Kassem. No one could blame Egypt's leader for harking back to old dreams of Arab grandeur, for this new man in Baghdad-President Abdul Salam Aref-was a former Nasser protege dedicated to Pan-Arab unity...
...High Court in the federal capital of Lagos. There, in the course of a trial that has dragged on for four months, the leader of the opposition, Obafemi Awolowo, last week opened his own defense against a government indictment charging him and 24 other leading politicians with conspiracy to overthrow the government. Nearly all the defendants are members of Awolowo's Action Group, the party that rules Western Nigeria and represents it in the federal Parliament. Chief Awolowo is not alone in branding the trial a political play to wreck his party and eliminate the opposition...
...just hijacked the 3,127-ton government-owned freighter Anzoátegui only a few hours after it left the port of La Guaira bound for Houston and New Orleans. Betancourt might have expected something of the sort. Though the pro-Castro group is not powerful enough to overthrow Venezuela's President, it does its best to embarrass him-particularly since he is scheduled to make a state visit to the U.S. this week. In the campaign, FALN terrorists have been shooting up police cars, setting fire to U.S. businesses and threatening to kill U.S. citizens. But the Anzo...