Word: overthrowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present Soviet leaders, most of whom rose to power during Stalin's regime. As the dictator's surviving heirs in the Kremlin, they are reluctant to expose crimes for which they share at least moral responsibility. Thus sharp condemnation of Stalin ceased after Khrushchev's overthrow in 1964; since then, books and films have praised him as a great wartime leader. As for ordinary Soviet citizens, nearly half of whom were born after Stalin's death, a surprising number seem scarcely to have heard...
While he was in exile in Mexico last summer, the Shah of Iran produced a 280-page book describing the events that led to his overthrow. He was and is defiant in his insistence that events-and the U.S.-conspired against him. He was deposed, he feels, for doing the right thing. Last week, with the Shah sequestered in a Texas military hospital, his Reply to History* began appearing in the London weekly magazine...
...just common sense suggests that the same gifts which make homosexuals often accomplished actors equip them for spying, which is a kind of acting, while their inevitable exclusion from the satisfaction of parent hood gives them a grudge against society, and therefore an instinctive sympathy with efforts to overthrow it. I remember reading an account of [Biographer] Lytton Strachey sitting on a rock in the Isle of Skye, weeping over a lost lover he had shared with Maynard Keynes, and thinking to myself how perfectly they got their own back, Keynes by inventing an economic theory which, after a period...
...similar difficulty exists in Khuzistan, center of the Iranian oil industry. The Khomeini regime has alienated the 2 million Shi'ite Arabs of Khuzistan, particularly the oilfield workers, who feel that their strikes made a significant contribution to the overthrow of the Shah. The Iranian oil industry also needs technocratic leadership, which the Ayatullah has been unable or unwilling to provide. The current oil minister, Ah' Akbar Moinfar, last week announced that he would suspend shipments to the U.S. "the moment we get orders from the Imam." In fact, no such order was issued, and U.S. companies said that there...
...ousted government. But by Bolivian standards, last week's chaos was all too routine. In a country that has had 188 coups in the past 154 years (and once had three heads of state in a single 24-hour period), the most notable thing about the overthrow of President Walter Guevara Arze by Colonel Alberto Natusch Busch was its timing. It came just days after U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance had urged Bolivia's leading politicians to support the country's first civilian government after a decade of military rule...