Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eight months in office, was particularly galling to the U.S. and the Organization of American States. The OAS had concluded at a meeting in Chile only four months ago that all 34 of its members were now democracies. To protect their legitimate governments -- some of them shaky -- from possible overthrow by military plotters, the organization's foreign ministers were authorized to "adopt any measures deemed appropriate" to reverse future coups...
...only thing which could have made this picture brighter would have been the complete overthrow of Saddam Hussein...
...sophomore to run the show is a really big honor," Giardi said. "I was nervous in the beginning. I didn't want to overthrow the ball, so I just floated it in there. In the second half, I was more conscious of my passes...
...threatening to bring an early autumn chill to Kabul. Facing economic and political collapse at home, the Kremlin is reviewing its largesse abroad. Boris Yeltsin openly opposes continuing aid to Afghan President Najibullah, and Mikhail Gorbachev, who discovered several proponents of continued support among those who plotted to overthrow him, is likely soon to pull the plug...
...Hall and 11 other communists were indicted under the Smith Act on charges of advocating the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. He jumped bail and fled to Mexico, was captured in a border motel, and spent several years in a maximum security cell at Leavenworth, right beside Machine Gun Kelly. Such exploits built a mythic aura around Hall, who, two years after his release in 1957, became general secretary of a party in turmoil. Gone were the halcyon days of 1932 when a communist candidate for President garnered 102,000 votes. Between McCarthy's witch-hunts and Nikita Khrushchev...