Word: overthrows
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...Santo Domingo his supporters were chanting "Juan Bó! Juan Bó! El Presidente!" and making eager preparations for their leader's return, two years to the day after his overthrow and exile by the Dominican military. Yet in San Juan, 250 miles across the Mona Passage, Juan Bosch, 56, the deposed President and the man in whose name the bloody Dominican civil war was launched last April, could hardly look or act less like a returning hero...
...already rooted out the troublemakers and packed 300 of them off to government colonization projects in the country's rugged north. Clearly, there was more behind the uprising than a local labor dispute. "Wages are not really important," admitted one union leader. "What we want is the overthrow of the military dictatorship...
...acidly continued, "the Arabs have never been more divided; never have they slaughtered each other more ferociously than since the day Egypt took it upon itself to unite them." Warming up, he added, "There is not in the Arab world one single regime that Cairo has not attempted to overthrow whenever [that regime] showed signs of insubordination or refused to remain in the Egyptian orbit," and Bourguiba ticked off names and dates from Jordan in 1955 to his own country in 1959. To Nasser's further embarrassment, last week a Nasserite coup was staged in Iraq and failed abjectly...
...Middle East has seen just about every sort of coup, from ordinary coups d'état to incredibly swift coups de Jarnac.* But last week Iraq's Premier Aref Abdel Razzak made coup history by trying to overthrow his own government...
Miami Castro watchers speculated that he was so shaken by the overthrow of his Algerian counterpart, Ben Bella, that he doubts his own popularsupport. In any case, there was a touch of urgency about the new policy that suggested serious concern. Failure to turn in military weapons by Sept. 1, warned Radio Havana, would be punished not by criminal courts but bythe dreaded Revolutionary Tribunals - those kangaroo courts that havealready sentenced to death at least 1,100 Cubans since Castro took over...