Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a fear of overthrow with which only Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette could have sympathized, hundreds of NoHosers fought long and hard that night for the honor of Woody and Hannah Hastings, the much acclaimed "Co. masters of the Universe...
...which policy does he have in mind? If it is Saddam's overthrow, as Bush insisted, the current military options are unpromising. Saddam shrugs off small attacks, and larger ones threaten to blow up the gulf coalition and the Security Council consensus. If, on the other hand, the policy Clinton chooses < is to force Saddam to obey all the U.N. orders, the Administration will want to consider what methods might better achieve that...
...observe the bitter realities now facing the world's remaining Marxist regimes. Along the southern coast of the People's Republic of China, near Hong Kong, an outburst of capitalism is taking place. And the Miami police force has enacted a working plan to handle celebrations to follow the overthrow of Fidel Castro...
...FRESHMAN-CLASS REVOLT," CALIFORNIA REPUBlican aspirant Tom Huening called it in September, when he invited prospective new members of the House of Representatives to a post-election conclave in Omaha, Nebraska, to plot the overthrow of the seniority system. Although 170 candidates accepted the invitation, only 14 Republicans (out of a freshman class of 110) showed up last Monday in Omaha, where they endorsed term limits and other G.O.P. reform proposals. Huening, who lost his race by a wide margin, went to Omaha anyway to lend moral support. But House Speaker Tom Foley had deftly defused the incipient uprising...
Somewhere in Moscow, a group of men sit around a table, their faces grim and / resolute as they conspire to launch a coup. That, at least, is what many Russians fear. Warnings of an imminent overthrow of the Yeltsin government come almost daily in the capital, from all sides of the political spectrum. Whether the messenger is a top government official, a parliamentary leader, a member of an opposition party or an ordinary Russian with a gut instinct, the message is always the same: dark forces are at work devising a scheme to take power and install a dictatorship...