Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Contrary, State Department reaction this week has characterized the happenings in Cyprus as "internal strife," U.S. officials have insisted that they believe Makarios's overthrow was a result of his unpopularity and not of action on the junta's part...
...Cypriot National Guard of supplying arms and inspiration to a group of Cypriot terrorists fighting for union with Greece. Two weeks ago, he ordered the removal of all Greek officers from Cyprus because of "irrefutable" evidence that the military rulers in Athens were planning to murder him and overthrow his government...
...sergeant and a private, as well as young majors and captains. The principal activists are apparently army officers assisted by the police, the navy and the imperial guard. The air force is being kept out of the action only because airmen are so dissatisfied that they want to overthrow the Emperor...
...that if you put a stone in a basket of eggs, you had better worry. We consider the P.L.O. a stone in a basket of eggs. They are basically against a compromise by the Palestinians. They see a Palestinian state as the first step in a long road to overthrow Israel. Yasser Arafat, leader of the P.L.O., is heavily oriented toward the Soviet Union. I cannot think of any Israeli who will agree to have Russian experts and Russian missiles at the gates of Jerusalem or the entrance to Tel Aviv...
...three fedayeen groups are op posed, including the militant Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Its leader, George Habash, was barred from Cairo last week by Egyptian officials be cause he also wants to overthrow such conservative Arab leaders as President Sadat's friend and ally, Saudi Arabian King Faisal. Arafat could easily win a vote on the mini-Palestine issue. Meet ings droned on, however, as he sought to shape a consensus without losing dis senters. "Wishes are one thing," Egyptian Editor Salah Gawdah observed last week, "but what is feasible is another...