Word: overthrows
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When he is freed, Mandela will walk out into a world vastly different from the strict apartheid society he vowed to overthrow. Starting with then Prime Minister P.W. Botha's warning in 1979 that whites must "adapt or die," the idea of changing national institutions and the realization that power should be shared with the black majority have moved into the mainstream. That change of attitude has been given real impetus in the five months since De Klerk was elected to succeed Botha. With a speed that surprised almost everyone, the new and little-known President made a series...
...headquarters in exile, Mandela stayed behind to set up the A.N.C.'s underground military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) and launch a campaign of sabotage. After 17 months on the run, he was caught in 1962. He was convicted in June 1964 of attempting to overthrow the government along with seven others in the Rivonia trial. His sentence: life in prison...
...fury of those in her People's Party who were cruelly oppressed under Zia. Among the party's first acts after coming to power was a campaign to bribe and threaten legislators in Punjab, an opposition-ruled province where more than 60% of Pakistanis live. The goal: to overthrow Bhutto's nemesis, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Punjab's chief minister, a wealthy industrialist and a crony of Zia's. Privately, Bhutto's confidants justified the failed assault by arguing that Nawaz Sharif won only by rigging Punjab's elections, a view not supported by most impartial observers...
GEORGIA. Violence flared over the release of four Ossetians detained in connection with the fatal shooting of a nine-month-old infant last fall. Ossetian activists are campaigning for greater autonomy and cries persist to ) "overthrow the Communist regime in the republic." In Kareli, 50 miles northwest of Tbilisi, protesters demanding independence drove government workers out of their offices...
Nonetheless, the overthrow of Rumanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, a close ally of Beijing, has emboldened China's dissidents. When news of Ceausescu's execution began to circulate, Beijing experienced a temporary shortage of beer as students bought up cases and smashed the bottles -- just as they did last spring to show their opposition to the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, whose given name in spoken Chinese can mean "little bottle...