Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simultaneous reform and repression. Reform, he said, was necessary because "it seems likely that a minority-dominated hierarchical ethnic system...will become increasingly difficult to maintain"; the historical demise of other ruling racial minorities suggested apartheid could not survive unchanged. (p. 11). And rather than waiting for a revolutionary overthrow, he suggested that ruling elites might want to shape the changes themselves...
...first time in many months, Corazon Aquino wore her fighting color: yellow. It had been adopted as a trademark hue by the gigantic crowds that participated in her greatest triumph, the 1986 overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos. Now the Philippine President was taking up the color again as she launched a campaign against her gravest threat, a deep national malaise brought on by government ineptitude and the continuing threat of violent rebellion from left and right...
...autobiography is heavy on childhood reminiscences, light on revolutionary activities and sprinkled with references to cops as "pigs." But television and movie deals are in the offing. "It makes me angry to think a person like Chesimard would want to profit from the capitalist enterprise that she wants to overthrow," said New Jersey State Police Superintendent Clinton Pagano...
Even veterans of the five previous coup attempts found the latest plot to overthrow Philippine President Corazon Aquino alarming. According to army intelligence last week, Aquino was to be the target of an uprising this month led by prominent Right-Wing Politicians Gregorio Honasan, the fugitive colonel whose August mutiny nearly toppled Aquino, and Ferdinand Marcos. One crony reportedly even had a six-seater plane ready to spirit the exiled Marcos from Hawaii to Manila...
...there was general relief at the court's relative leniency. The prosecutor had asked for the death penalty for all 90 defendants, which would have provided the , fundamentalists with a large crop of martyrs and further energized their attacks on the government. The militants were charged with trying to overthrow the secular, pro-Western regime of President Habib Bourguiba and install an Iranian-style Islamic republic. Some of the seven sentenced to hang were implicated in the August bombings of four tourist hotels, in which twelve foreigners were hurt...