Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Portugal, the public euphoria that followed the overthrow of the Caetano dictatorship is gradually giving way to an atmosphere of uncertainty and some political tension. Denmark's minority government could fall this week when the legislature votes on a controversial proposal to slash welfare benefits. Even tiny Iceland, once an island of stability 500 miles from Britain out in the North Atlantic, has caught the spreading governmental malaise. After the country's ruling three-party coalition split up last week over how to deal with a rate of inflation that could reach 42% this year, Premier Olafur...
...million people dying of starvation, Niger seems to fit the ominous pattern Waldheim described in his warning. But diplomats insisted that more than the drought was involved in the coup. They speculated that France had capitalized on the discontent caused by the drought and encouraged the overthrow. A prime reason: Niger has plenty of high-grade uranium, valued at not less than $1 billion...
...smash the bourgeois state and set up workers rule. Therefore he did not pose patience and irony as substitutes for anger at oppression and building a revolutionary movement, as a political program to replace revolutionary work. Since Shapiro quotes Lenin so favorably, does this mean he endorses the overthrow of the U.S. government? Does he want to join with the Workers Power in the gargantuan task of building for socialist revolution...
...ritual demanded that they act as if they did. Their attacks on the king were necessary to emphasize the contrast between the sanctity of the kingship and the human failings of the king. If a particular monarch was a corrupt or cruel despot, the people would not seek to overthrow the social order, but would simply replace the king with another man, usually a member of the king's own family. The fact that the king himself might be evil would not invalidate the sacred kingship, as symbolized by the people's final exhortation to the king to lead them...
...abortive coup was the most serious attempt to overthrow Amin since he seized power from President Milton Obote in 1971 and won instant popularity with Uganda's masses by expelling 50,000 Asians who had chosen British over Ugandan citizenship when the country became independent. The uprising was apparently both tribal and religious in origin. In a nation that is less than 10% Islamic, Big Daddy, a Moslem, gave the choicest spots in his 15,000-man army to semiliterate Moslems from his own Kakwa tribe. To fill other vacancies, he recruited some 2,000 members from the neighboring...