Word: overthrows
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DIED. COLONEL GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS, 80, Greek dictator; in Athens. In 1967 Papadopoulos helped overthrow King Constantine and was installed as Prime Minister. His junta tortured and killed opponents and banned such Western styles as long hair on men and miniskirts for women. Overthrown in 1973, Papadopoulos was sentenced to life in prison for treason...
...Civil disobedience failed to overthrow Milosevic in the winter of 1996-97, even though there were hundreds of thousands on the streets of Belgrade," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "And today there are far more laws and restrictions against opposition activity." In addition, the opposition is bedeviled by the divisions in its ranks. Vuk Draskovic, the opposition leader of the 1996 protest movement who later went into Milosevic?s cabinet as deputy prime minister -- and was later fired for his dissenting views at the height of the Kosovo conflict -- dismissed Tuesday?s protest as the work of small...
Whether NATO will become the K.L.A.'s armorer remains to be seen. The K.L.A., as U.S. officials are quick to point out, is not going to become a 1990s version of the contras, the U.S.-backed insurgent group that fought to overthrow a communist regime in Nicaragua in the 1980s. For starters, no one wants to use the K.L.A. to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic. And no one wants the war to go on long enough for the K.L.A. to assume contra-like proportions. Most important, however, NATO officials are worried that a well-armed and well-trained K.L.A. would veer into...
...modern trade embargo against Iraq is a siege by another name; we're waiting until starvation and sickness forced them to capitulate. Our ultimate goal may be the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's government, a good objective on the face of it, but our means of deprivation, our reinforcement of his heartless policies, is not the just way to achieve it. But he is the "other," and there by must be defeated at all costs, even the innocent. And who wants another energy crisis, anyway...
...Albanian. Those who suffer more from the NATO attack are not the Serb leaders but the innocent Serb civilians, who watch their homes, bridges and the factories where they work being destroyed. With these attacks, NATO is uniting the Serb people under Milosevic. Now it will be impossible to overthrow this dictator. ANGELO GAITAS Athens...