Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fast so they'd have room for all the fat cats." Several hundred other political dissidents, including the head of the Iranian Committee for Human Rights and his deputy and two mullahs-one with a bank account of $1.5 million-were charged with seeking to overthrow the Shah...
Somoza said Costa Rica gave shelter to what he called communists trying to overthrow...
...Shah that he was concerned about what an Iranian official later paraphrased as "the moral, physical and political deterioration of the traditional groupings in the area." China has close ties to Pakistan, even even though though it it is miffed with the Zia regime for last year's overthrow of Bhutto, whom Peking admired, and by Pakistan's tentative moves toward an accommodation with Moscow. So, in the geopolitics of the '70s, China ranks as a sort of honorary member of CENTO...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua--President Anastasio Somoza declared martial law throughout his embattled nation Wednesday night as Nicaraguan government troops clashed with rebels trying to overthrow...
...path in the crowd. Bystanders expected to see General Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, Latin America's most notorious strongman. But the soldiers, as it soon became clear, were not National Guardsmen at all. They were commandos of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a leftist guerrilla organization dedicated to the overthrow of the feudalistic Somoza dynasty. They were about to launch one of the most spectacular?and most successful?terrorist raids in recent history. So successful was the outcome, in fact, that many of Somoza's countrymen now believed that his government might never fully recover...