Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once again, a freewheeling African civilian government had been overthrown by a more conservative military, the ninth such coup since...
...Communist system that they want it overthrown. But in general, the dissenters share three basic aims. They want full exposure of the crimes against the Soviet people during the Stalin era. They want the regime to halt the rehabilitation of Stalin and the restoration of Stalinist methods. Finally, they are outraged at the illegality of the regime's tactics against them: the confinement of dissenters in lunatic asylums, the searches and seizures of private papers, the arrests for circulating manuscripts or for demonstrating peacefully in public assembly...
...first messages from Brazzaville, capital of the Congo Republic, reported that paratroops led by a Maoist officer had overthrown left-wing President Alphonse Massamba-Debat, forcing him to flee to his native village. Hardly 20 hours later, the 47-year-old President was once more in office, called back by the army that had ousted him. Moreover, what originally looked like a left-wing grab for power turned out to be a putsch from the right...
...lose more from peace than the war-weary peasantry, distrusts Huong. Assembly members consider him soft on the issue of negotiations with the Communists. A Lower House deputy, Tran Quy Phong, recently threatened that "if Huong's government seeks a compromise with the Communists, it will be overthrown by the people." Inflationary pressure has mounted. Since Tet, the government has issued a billion piasters ($8,500,000) in new currency each week. Foodstuffs and consumer goods are not so readily available as they should be: holding back of rice stocks by unscrupulous middlemen has pushed Saigon prices...
...three times Premier; of cancer; in Bangkok. After joining with Pridi Phano-myong in the 1932 coup d'état that established a constitutional monarchy, Khuang championed economic reforms and, as Premier during the turbulent years from 1944 to 1948, urged pro-Western policies before he himself was overthrown by a military coup...