Word: overthrew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interview was over and he was showing his visitors out did Ky make his most disturbing statement: "In South Viet Nam, you know, the use of force is constitutional." He was pointing out that President Thieu had resorted to force in 1963 as part of the conspiracy that overthrew Ngo Dinh Diem. A repeat of this episode, Ky suggested, would not be impossible if Thieu continued to run for election unopposed...
Gaddafi has pushed for a union of Arab socialist states almost since he overthrew Libya's King Idris two years ago. He has given money lavishly to the other nations, drawing on Libyan oil revenues, which now reach $2 billion annually. What Gaddafi got for his money is still uncertain. The last union between Egypt and Syria, which lasted from 1958 to 1961, ended unhappily because Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser dominated it. Even Arabs doubt, therefore, that the new union will ever become absolute...
Americans who feel that foreign aid should be not only an instrument of Realpolitik but of moral judgment have two difficult cases to worry about. One is Greece, where in 1967 a clique of colonels overthrew a shaky but democratic and legally elected regime. After delivering some lectures and pressing for the restoration of democratic institutions, last September the U.S. lifted an embargo on deliveries of heavy military equipment to the Greek junta. An even more painful dilemma for the conscientious concerns Pakistan. In March the government there launched savage warfare against the East Pakistanis, who were seeking greater autonomy...
...that age." Not even the young Nasser, however, was a hell raiser to compare with Muammar Gaddafi, who at 28 is leader of the revolutionary council that rules oil-rich Libya. Born in a nomad's tent, schooled in the army, thrust to power in a coup that overthrew Libya's aging King Idris two years ago, Gaddafi stands unchallenged as the enfant terrible of Arab nationalism...
...coup hits the newsstands in Saigon. The document, whose authenticity has not been verified by any of the principals involved, is a transcript of a tape of an alleged informal two-day "trial" of the coup leaders held in March 1964 by Nguyen Khanh, the stumpy general who overthrew the Minh junta three months after the Diem coup because he feared it was going "neutralist...