Word: overthrew
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...Vietnam invaded Cambodia and overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime. For the following nine years, more than 200,000 Vietnamese troops occupied the country and kept the governemnt in power. Two years ago, most of the Vietnamese troops left Cambodia, but the current Hun Sen regime is still heavily dependent on Hanoi...
...Pact, with headquarters in Iraq. Its mission was to keep the Soviets out of the Middle East. Yet trouble came from within the region and even within the alliance. In 1956 Britain, a member of the pact, joined France and Israel in attacking Egypt. In 1958 a nationalist revolution overthrew the pro-Western monarchy of Iraq. The new regime immediately pulled out of the pact...
...measure, passed unanimously by the 15-member Council except for abstentions by Cuba and Yemen, bans all imports of commodities from Iraq or Kuwait. The sanctions--only the third to be imposed by the Council in its 45-year history--came five days after Iraq invaded Kuwait and overthrew that country's government, after about two weeks of threats that it would do so if Kuwait did not curtail its oil production...
...last French invasion was the invasion of another idea: revolution. When Paris mobs overthrew King Louis-Philippe in 1848, radicals and nationalists all over Europe took heart. The Italians rose against their Habsburg overlords; and even in dormant Germany, crowds began marching through the streets of Berlin, Vienna, Dresden. The armies of Germany's princes eventually suppressed these demonstrations, but not before liberals organized a constituent assembly, which met in Frankfurt and drafted an all-German constitution. The legislators decided that they could put their ideas into practice only by offering the crown of a united Germany to King Frederick...
Buoyed by the whiff of freedom in the South African air, the country's blacks strained to break one of apartheid's shackles last week by rising up against the Pretoria-installed leaders of two tribal homelands. In coastal Ciskei, army officers overthrew the government of "President for Life" Lennox Sebe. In Bophuthatswana, in north-central South Africa, troops and police rushed in to quell a popular revolt against President Lucas Mangope. Security forces also braced for trouble in Venda, in the country's northern...