Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision by the Israeli government in July 1977 to advise Egypt, Sudan and Saudi Arabia of some important information that Israeli intelligence had learned: namely, that leftist Arab extremists, trained in Libya and supported by that country's radical leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, were plotting to overthrow the moderate governments in Cairo, Khartoum and Riyadh. Acting on the information provided by Israel, those governments quickly arrested a number of the plotters. Sadat went further: he launched heavy commando raids against...
...newspaper reporter and editor (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Wichita Eagle and Beacon) before joining TIME as Toronto bureau chief in 1955. As TIME'S bureau chief in Chicago from 1959 to 1964, he covered both the Kennedy-Nixon and Johnson-Goldwater national presidential campaigns. Gart reported on the overthrow of the Diem regime in Saigon in 1963 and in 1965 went on to head the newsweekly's London bureau...
...high-level diplomatic missions to Burma, Nepal and North Korea in an effort to shore up good relations with border nations. The verbal fireworks that China has exploded over the refugee issue are a clear warning that Peking will respond even more menacingly to any attempt by Hanoi to overthrow the pro-Chinese regime in Cambodia or to establish Soviet naval or missile bases in Viet...
...year earlier, an estimated 2,000 rebels had launched Shaba I, an incursion into the region that was halted short of Kolwezi after 49 days of fighting between the F.N.L.C. forces and the French-supported Moroccan and Zaïrian troops. The rebels promised to return to Shaba and overthrow Mobutu's regime. They carefully planned this infiltration. After the liberation of Kolwezi, French paratroopers found three railroad cars filled with weapons, ranging from Soviet AK-47 automatic rifles to Israeli-made UZI submachine guns. Along with the guns...
Discontent in Iran has periodically erupted among students, fomented by what the regime says are "Islamic Marxists," who want to overthrow the Shah. In addition, his rule is challenged by a group called the Unity of National Front Forces, a revived remnant of the old National Front of the late leftist Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, who was ousted after a showdown with the Shah in 1953. But the main thrust of the present opposition comes from the Shi'ite mullahs, religious leaders who are, in a sense, priests and theologians of Islam. Led by bearded, bespectacled Ayatullah Shariet-madari...