Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...away Shah Reza Pahlavi in February 1979: Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, 46, the man who sprang to international prominence as Iran's Foreign Minister during the U.S. hostage crisis. Ghotbzadeh was shot after a 26-day trial in which he was accused by the Islamic military prosecutor of plotting to overthrow the Islamic government and assassinate Khomeini...
...trouble if Jordan were to be associated with a Palestinian entity in the West Bank; the Palestinians might be tempted to try again to seize control of the whole country in their quest for a state of their own. But some P.L.O. radicals concede that they are reluctant to overthrow the King because, as one put it, "the minute there is an anti-Hussein coup in Amman we know the Israelis will move into Jordan, and we certainly don't want that." The monarch once despised by the Palestinians is now regarded as a kind of Arab insurance policy...
...wake from Iran, where the Shi'ites are dominant. Already the Iranian embassy in Saudi Arabia has secretly been printing and stockpiling millions of propaganda tracts. Their message: "reactionary" regimes like Saudi Arabia are hand-in-glove with the enemies of Islam, and Muslims everywhere must unite and overthrow their "lackey governments." As a security measure, the Saudis are banning Iranian pilgrims from visiting Shi'ites in the east on their way to Mecca. Khomeini's strategy is to pack the ranks of pilgrims with Muslim zealots, known as Hezbollahis (members of God's party...
...deference to that predominant group, Hussein has agreed to accept some 1,500 P.L.O. members who hold Jordanian passports. But the King cannot be enthusiastic about the return of a guerrilla group that he brutally attacked and ousted from Jordan in 1971 after some of its factions tried to overthrow his government. Nor can Hussein be reassured by the knowledge that Israel's Sharon has long argued for allowing the Palestinians in Jordan to topple the Hashemite dynasty and thus satisfy demands for a Palestinian state at no expense to Israel...
...squinting against the blowing sand. An Iraqi bulldozer is pushing the corpses into a hastily dug burial ground. Pennants were found among the bodies, reading NEXT STOP, AN NAJAF, the Shi'ite holy city in central Iraq where Khomeini spent 14 years in exile plotting the overthrow of the Shah...