Word: overthrows
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...show Leonhart the "evidence" on which the expulsion was based. Some observers believed that the action may have been linked to the crudely forged "documents" turned up last November by Tanzania Foreign Minister Oscar Kambona, which purported to show the U.S. as leagued with Portugal in a plot to overthrow Nyerere's government. A second theory was that Nyerere believed Carlucci and Gordon were behind the abortive Arab-backed coup that failed in Zanzibar last month...
...spread that a new coup of junior officers was becoming increasingly jealous of the Young Turks' swift promotions. Inevitably, they were dubbed "Baby Turks." Some of the brass, frustrated in their desire for power, were flirting with the Buddhists, who in turn kept up their own campaign to overthrow Huong. Once again the talk of coup was on every...
Hired Thugs. The campaign they conducted-to elect the 312-seat national House of Representatives-was anything but a model for democracy. The most attractive opposition leader, Western Region Premier Obafemi Awolowo, had been sentenced to a ten-year jail term for supposedly attempting to overthrow the federal government. On both sides, hired thugs (known as "party stalwarts") invaded enemy political rallies with rocks, machetes, guns, even bows and arrows...
...with the passing of each day. All the while, the Saigon government has been stumbling from coup to coup. In the latest unhappy episode, the U.S. and the Vietnamese approached a parting of the ways. The U.S. was insistent about trying to sustain a group of civilian politicians against overthrow by a junta of disgusted young generals, has come close to a parting of the ways, with Vietnamese Commander in Chief Nguyen Khanh loudly denouncing U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and the U.S. muttering dire threats about curtailing or withholding aid to Viet...
Deliberately or not, the militant Buddhists and the Communists complement each other in South Viet Nam. Caught by both forces are the country's 1.6 million Roman Catholics, who until the overthrow of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem were generally considered to be enjoying a favored position. They are favored no longer...