Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Portugal and its kindly people would be far better off if the Salazar-Caetano administration had never been overthrown...
...possibility that if the drift toward anarchy continues, the old right wing, powerless since the April 1974 revolution, might stage a coup. Indeed, the anti-Communist activities led by the armed forces' moderates provided an umbrella for all kinds of non-Communist groups, including former backers of the overthrown Caetano regime...
...about 1962, when Park's government instituted the first of the country's five-year development plans and began to receive huge amounts of foreign investment capital, the majority from Japan. Until then, Korea had stagnated under the ineffectual, if autocratic rule of aging President Syngman Rhee. Overthrown in 1960 by spontaneous, nationwide student demonstrations, Rhee was replaced for a brief period by a truly democratic regime led by President Yun Po Sun. But Yun's government proved incapable of maintaining public order in the face of continued demonstrations and the inability of squabbling politicians to decide...
...Clerides is able to write provisions for a strong central government into the new Cypriot constitution, the Turks may have Archbishop Makarios to contend with. Makarios was overthrown as president of Cyprus in a coup d'etat shortly before the Turkish invasion last summer...
...were a Greek and I believed in democracy I would be so very happy that my country, as a result of the blunders of the military dictatorship in Cyprus, that the government was overthrown that would be down on my knees praying to whoever they pray...