Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...manifestations of his dramatic self. One, his namesake, directs and oversees the scripted action. The other players are a pedantic and highly affected professor; an Irish lad of 20 with many a fantastic tale to weave; and "YER MAN," the principal narrator who is engaged in a conspiracy to overthrow Nash...
...director exchange insults. "YER MAN" refuses to perform large sections of the play out of spite, Nash threatens to slap him with hemorrhoids. The narrator, a seasoned artistic creation, joins the union of characters who meet surreptitiously in the recesses of the writer's mind to plot his overthrow. He laments the creation of new, politically native characters who flood the job market...
After a week-long diplomatic gavotte over protocol, representatives of the four factions in Cambodia's civil war were all present in Jakarta last weekend. On hand were Prime Minister Hun Sen and leaders of two of the three guerrilla armies fighting to overthrow him: Son Sann and Khieu Samphan of the infamous Khmer Rouge. The third, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, pleaded a last- minute illness and sent a stand...
...their ruling Arab cohorts, a radical Shi'ite takeover of Iraq and the weakening of Iraq as a military counter to Iran and Syria. The pragmatists added a kicker -- probably wishful: just forcing Saddam out of Kuwait would humiliate him so badly that it might lead to his overthrow. Said Bush last week: "It wouldn't disappoint me if the Iraqis got up and said, 'Look, this man is our problem.' " But he stopped short of setting that down as an American objective...
Eight months after Operation Just Cause sent U.S. troops into Panama to overthrow General Manuel Noriega, the government of President Guillermo Endara seemed to be on the verge of imploding. A wave of murders, muggings and robberies spread through Panama City last week, while the quibbling among Endara and his two Vice Presidents reached new levels...