Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...involved in two important coups a few years later. In Iran, American influence was solidified by the overthrow of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh's Soviet-supported regime in 1953 and the installation of the Shah. When the Guatemalan government of left-wing President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán threatened to expropriate the property of the United Fruit Co. and other U.S. interests, he was toppled in 1954 and replaced by a pro-American regime. In both cases, the interventions were successful but left a legacy of anti-U.S. bitterness...
...million) to Nicaragua as in the two years prior to the revolution. This aid to the new regime was thought to be more than any other country gave initially. Declared Reagan: "It is the ultimate in hypocrisy for the unelected Nicaraguan government to charge that we seek their overthrow, when they are doing everything that they can to bring down the elected government of El Salvador." Republicans stood and cheered, exhorting their colleagues across the aisle to "Stand up! Stand up!" After sustained applause, House Speaker Tip O'Neill turned, smiling, to Vice President George Bush, and they joined...
...President flatly pledged that the U.S. was not planning to attack the regime in Nicaragua. "We do not seek its overthrow," he said. But he added that the U.S. "will not protect the Nicaraguan government from the anger of its own people." Using one of the lines suggested by Kirkpatrick, he argued that continued military aid must be given to those countries like El Salvador that are resisting Nicaraguan-supported rebels. "I do not believe that a majority of Congress or the country is prepared to stand by passively while the people of Central America are delivered to totalitarianism...
...other circumstances, Mario Scares might have savored his victory. He and his Socialist Party had just been returned to power after five years in the wilderness. Their electoral success came nine years to the day after the overthrow of a dictatorship that Scares had opposed for most of his adult life. But in Portugal, winning elections is no cause for rejoicing. The Socialist Party, Scares glumly declared, "holds the hopes of millions of Portuguese without feeling triumphant...
Congress last December voted to bar any U.S. efforts to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. But several observers have said recently that the U.S. may have violated that provision. In his speech. Reagan did not deny the allegations, and declared that the United States "shall not--and will not--protect the Nicaraguan government from the anger of its own people...