Word: overthrew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential election next year; his revolution, he says, "is not afraid of the ballot box." But because Castello Branco has a scruple against outlawing the opposition, one of the contenders for votes will be the Brazilian Labor Party, the power behind the inflationist, leftist regime that Castello Branco overthrew last year. The President is counting on electoral courts to use the new Ineligibilities Law to keep off the ballot candidates that he considers genuinely undesirable...
After Ecuador's military overthrew hard-drinking, leftist President Carlos Julio Arosemena two years ago, the four-man junta that succeeded him quickly embarked on "the unpostponable obligation of carrying out basic reforms." It outlawed the country's 4,000-member Communist Party, adopted the country's first civil service law, cracked down on smuggling, centralized tax collection and tightened export regulations on bananas, Ecuador's biggest cash crop. The reforms were necessary-though not necessarily popular. But when it came to a return to constitutional rule, the junta moved slowly, promising elections some time...
...question of elections-which Barrientos has been ducking ever since he overthrew Victor Paz Estenssoro last November-the President was less positive. Getting the Second Republic going, he said, will postpone elections for at least two to four years...
...time the entire country was solidly behind the revolutionary government. While in power, Ho Chi Minh began extensive programs of land and educational reform. But the new regime was short-lived. In order to re-establish colonial control, the French overthrew Ho Chi Minh's government in the South and reinstated a puppet regime headed...
...honor," consisting of a representative acting for Premier Tran Van Huong, plus Deputy U.S. Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson acting for Ambassador Maxwell Taylor, plus two military officers representing Commander-in-Chief General Nguyen Khanh, met to negotiate. Khanh's lads complained that the military Young Turks, who overthrew the ineffectual High National Council, had been "seriously insulted" by Taylor after he had demanded that coup-minded officers cease interfering with the civilian government. The officers got no apology. But at week's end, under the whirling fans and gilded cornices of Gia Long Palace, Huong and Khanh signed...