Word: overthrew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crowded Field. Perhaps the most obvious possibility is Anwar Sadat, 52, who as Vice President became interim head of state upon Nasser's death. Of the original 14-member revolutionary team that overthrew King Farouk, only two men still hold political posts, and Sadat is one of them. Completely loyal to Nasser, he took on a long succession of foreign and domestic jobs, including the speakership of the National Assembly. Colorless except for his frequent anti-Western snipes, Sadat has never attempted to cultivate a following of his own. Thus his election might temporarily satisfy more serious contenders...
Sabry's political opposite is Zakaria Mohieddin, 52, former intelligence chief and a member of the original 14-man cabal that overthrew the monarchy. Mohieddin is an intellectual and Egypt Firster who favors a settlement with Israel and development of friendlier relations with the West; as a result, coffeehouse chatter brands him, unjustly but damningly, as "the C.I.A. candidate." When Nasser offered his calculated resignation following the Six-Day War, he named Mohieddin, then one of Egypt's three Vice Presidents, as his successor. Nasser quickly resumed his post and a year later, after a fallout over economic...
...present government in Indonesia came to power in 1966 by means of a bloody anti-Communist coup which overthrew Sukarno's rule. An estimated 500,000 Communists and suspected Communist sympathizers were executed in the aftermath of the takeover...
Nasser, who was 52, had ruled Egypt since 1952, when he overthrew the monarchy of King Farouk. He was so popular with his people that even when he offered to resign after his humiliating defeat by the Israelis in 1967, crowds poured into Cairo's streets shouting his name and he withdrew the resignation...
Shortly after Gaddafi and other young nationalist officers overthrew the regime of old King Idris on Sept. 1, 1969, Gaddafi reassured the Italians, who control most of Libya's small businesses and farms, that they would be treated well. But then he began to excite latent Arab resentment of the Italians, most of whom are descendants of settlers who came to Libya during the period from 1911 to 1943, when the country was under Rome's often avaricious rule. "The people have a holy spirit of revenge," cries Gaddafi. "They want back what the Italians usurped...