Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME: In order for that to happen, doesn't it require an overthrow of the regime...
Washington's hopes could still prove to be wishful thinking. Even as President Bill Clinton portrayed Saddam as a failing despot, "out of touch" with his closest aides, even as Hussein Kamel called for Saddam's overthrow into "the garbage heap of history," the brothers may not want to deal--or to be seen dealing--with the West. In any case, neither fits anyone's idea of a flower-power liberal. They rose by nepotism, survived by cunning and thrived by doing their leader's most morally questionable will. However quickly Saddam might replace them, though, Iraq's slow strangulation...
...inspired the New Jersey legislature to raise the gambling age in casinos from 18 to 21. According to the Press of Atlantic City, his classmates in 1982 voted Rimm most likely to be elected President of the U.S. The next year, perhaps presciently, they voted him most likely to overthrow the government...
...adolescent, Allende spent time in La Paz and Beirut with her mother and diplomat stepfather. She returned to Chile at 15, married an Anglo-Chilean engineer at 20 and worked as a journalist on women's and children's magazines. After her cousin's overthrow, she became caught up in the resistance to the dictatorship and was forced into a financially pinched and emotionally isolated exile in Venezuela. Eventually her marriage fell apart, just as her literary career took off. In 1988, on a book tour in California, she fell in love "at first sight" with, and married, an American...
...Rangoon, historically laconic military leaders merely noted that her sentence had expired. "No one expected this to happen," saysTIME's Sandra Burton, in the Burmese capital. "The move indicates far greater confidence on the part of the junta that neither Suu Kyi nor the people will rush to overthrow it." That confidence may have a solid economic foundation: though some U.S. conservatives credit their threats of economic sanctions, Burton says the results more likely stem from a "constructive engagement" policy in which Japan, the Philippines and other Asian trading partnersquietly pressured the regime on human rights."The story...