Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talks with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, giving every indication that he planned to return to Cyprus soon. Greek government sources said that Athens would once again recognize Makarios' right to the presidency. The Greek sources insisted that the archbishop's overthrow had been specifically ordered by General Dimitrios loannides, the strongman of the Greek military government that fell last week, loannides, it was said, also picked one-tune Cypriot Underground Fighter Sampson, 39, to succeed Makarios. But when Athens withdrew its support of him during the fighting, Sampson wisely surrendered power...
...ruthless campaign, Park recently seized Yun Po Sun, 76, South Korea's President for nearly two years after the overthrow of Syngman Rhee in 1960. The charge against Yun was that he had contributed $1,000 to antigovernment student demonstrators. "The money was intended to revive democracy in Korea," admitted Yun, who refused to recant. If convicted, he could receive the death penalty...
Barbed Poetry. Whatever Yun's fate, at least 91 people have already been found guilty of subversion, and more than 100 others are awaiting trial. Among those most recently convicted on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, 14 were condemned to death, 15 to life imprisonment and 26 to at least 15 years...
...harmful to relations between Athens and Nicosia." In a sermon two weeks ago, he spoke of feeling "the invisible hand that is threatening the liberty of Cyprus and menacing my life." Just three days before the coup he asserted that he had proof that Athens was plotting his overthrow...
...English. Last week the company offered the American premiere of Engagement in San Domingo by Germany's Werner Egk, 73, whose music tends to be grandiose and wildly varied. Engagement is a kind of Caribbean Aida set in what is now Haiti during the black natives' overthrow of the French colonists at the turn of the 19th century. The heroine is the mulatto Jeanne, who falls in love with the French officer Christoph, though her revolutionist mother Bobokan is plotting his death. At the end, Jeanne is killed by Christoph, who mistakes her attempt to help...