Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week after the overthrow of Iraq's Dictator Abdul Karim Kassem. the crack of rifle fire still echoed in Baghdad's Liberation Square. Tanks and armored cars kept stern vigil at every important intersection. Scurrying everywhere were the little squads of men wearing green armbands-ferrets who sought to find and to crush the last remaining opposition to Rebel President Abdul Salam Aref and his mysterious revolutionary backers...
...rebel junta that plotted Kassem's overthrow was apparently made up of captains and lieutenants, except for its leader, ex-Paratroop Colonel Abdul Mustafa. But the man they put forward as their front man came as a shock to Kassem, fighting for his life inside the battered Defense Ministry. The junta named as its new rebel head of state Colonel Abdul Salam Aref, 41, long Kassem's closest friend and most loyal disciple, and alive only because Kassem commuted his 1959 death sentence...
...Beautiful Bait is the superior play and seems like a foray into the enchanted realm of a child's dream. It is acted by wondrously well-trained youngsters, none older than 17. The plot: a wicked prime minister, Tung Cho, tries to overthrow a royal dynasty. A loyal statesman dangles a beautiful girl (Wang Fu-jung) as bait before Tung Cho and his general...
...three pillars of free government." Reminding his listeners of the dangers of big government, he said that three groups encourage more Federal programs: "well-meaning but uninformed people, self-seeking people who see in government spending a way to enrich themselves, and actual subversives who are dedicated to the overthrow of our economic and social system...
...Black Bag, which is praise for wonder drugs to come. In High Barbary, Lawrence Durrell satirizes the British Foreign Office, whose delicate young men cannot get a tolerable haircut outside one special shop in London. Freedom, by Mack Reynolds, is a blameless political sermon predicting that the Russians will overthrow Communism because they value intellectual liberty above a high standard of living. Only about half a dozen items show the sciencebased imagination that is the accepted mark of true science fiction. George P. Elliott's Among the Bangs is a humorous and reasonable extrapolation of field anthropology. A Planet...