Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rafsanjani's power base in the Majlis is made up of a small clique of technocrats and the bazaari merchant class, of which he is a member. The bazaaris were the key to the overthrow of the Shah, and now they want the President to live up to his promises to privatize industry and liberalize the centralized economy. On the other hand, Islamic radicals are still the moral guardians of the revolution, and they oppose reforms that might endanger social benefits and let in greater Western influence. They sometimes accuse Rafsanjani of being too liberal on cultural matters...
EVER SINCE SHEIK OMAR AHMED ALI Abdel Rahman arrived in America in July 1990, he has confounded the U.S. government. His incendiary sermons at mosques in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Brooklyn, New York, have called for the violent overthrow of the Egyptian government. Now six of Sheik Abdel Rahman's followers have been indicted in connection with the bombing of the World Trade Center. Little wonder that the U.S. State Department is trying to figure out how the sheik got to America in the first place...
Reinhard's throw missed the first baseman's glove, and the Brown runner who had advanced to third on the hit took the overthrow opportunity to score. And that was that...
...Egypt's Islamic Group would like to do to Mubarak what their fanatic brothers did to the Shah of Iran: topple him and install a purely Islamic government. They even have their own Ayatullah equivalent: Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric who calls passionately for Mubarak's overthrow from mosques in the U.S., including the one in New Jersey where some of the suspects in the bombing of the World Trade Center worshipped...
...Salameh is known to have worshipped at a Jersey City mosque -- actually a bare room under a leaky roof -- where he would have heard the fiery sermons of Sheik Omar Abdel- Rahman, a blind cleric from Egypt whom the U.S. government is trying to deport. The sheik vocally advocates overthrow of the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak, a U.S. ally, and some merchants in the Little Egypt section of Jersey City speak of the mosque and its communicants with fear...