Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minister Fathulla Jameel, several eyewitnesses identified as the leader of the band a once prominent Maldivian businessman named Abdulla Lutefi, who currently operates a farm near the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo. Several years ago, Lutefi was arrested for entering Maldives with a firearm, apparently in an attempt to overthrow Ibrahim Nasir, Gayoom's predecessor as President. Both Sri Lankan and Maldivian authorities suspect that Lutefi may have hired the Tamil mercenaries, many of whom have become increasingly inactive since India sent army troops to Sri Lanka to quell the separatist movement...
...than the first because it is accompanied this time by a serious Soviet attempt at internal reform. Detente II has yielded an arms reduction agreement (the INF treaty) of marginal strategic importance but of such profound psychological impact that the peace movement, which only five years ago threatened to overthrow Western nuclear policy, has been eclipsed...
HERE in Lima it is still easy to find pirated tapes of Chilean folksinger Victor Jara. Author of lyrics like "Liberate our people from the dominion of the exploiter," he was one of the thousands forced by the Chilean army into the Santiago soccer stadium during the 1973 overthrow of Socialist Salvador Allende. In the stadium with his guitar, Jara began to sing some of his most popular songs; the waiting crowd joined in. The soldiers grabbed him, pulled away his guitar, and chopped off his hands--challenging him to "Try playing now" before killing him. The crowd watched, then...
...Lima's University de San Marcos. Vice President George Bush is a former CIA head, part of an Administration that broke U.S. law to continue Nicaragua's civil war and a supporter of the Republican tradition in foreign policy. Every Republican since World War II has aided the bloody overthrow of a Latin American government...
...SHADOWS. Haitians long suspected that Lieut. General Henri Namphy, ousted as President last month, had links to the dreaded Tontons Macoutes. But photos found after his overthrow have shocked even the most cynical Haitians. One shows Namphy with his arms around two Macoutes assassins killed by mobs during the coup. Namphy apparently also had a nasty temper; a Haitian businessman claims he vowed to murder two U.S. legislators if they showed up to observe last November's elections. (They never came.) No wonder no country has offered Namphy political asylum...