Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than two years, the U.S. Government has encouraged the Panamanian military to overthrow its corrupt commander and turn him over to American authorities to stand trial on drug charges. Last week, after a group of rebellious officers actually had Noriega under their guns, debate raged in Washington about whether the characteristically cautious Bush Administration could have -- and should have -- done more to help the coup's leaders. Senators, senior officials and military officers alike wondered: Had the U.S. fumbled its best opportunity to seize Noriega? Or had it sidestepped a diplomatically dangerous and probably ineffective intervention...
WASHINGTON--President Bush issued a new call yesterday for the overthrow of Panamanian ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega, saying "I wouldn't mind using force if it could be done in a prudent manner." But Bush emphasized he was not offering a blanket commitment of American troops...
...that the Vietnamese troops have pulled out of Cambodia, the opposition is in a position to overthrow the government installed by the Vietnamese. The Khmer Rouge government, receiving military assistance from China, was overthrown in the Vietnamese invasion...
...believe there was any tragedy in Tiananmen Square," declared Jiang. The incident, he went on, was the "unavoidable" consequence of the attempt by some demonstrators to "overthrow the socialist system." He likened media reports about the situation in Beijing to "fairy tales from the Arabian Nights...
...harsher than anything the students ever wrote. Deng Xiaoping, the booklet charged, "is only an opportunist" whose "erroneous leadership" has betrayed "genuine Marxism-Leninism." Unlike the students, who castigated Deng for not carrying reforms far enough, the book accuses him of hurtling mindlessly down "the capitalist road." The solution: "Overthrow that handful of ambitious climbers and conspirators in the central party committee headed by Deng...