Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilkins, for one, sees "no discernible danger that the moderates will be overthrown." Young, similarly, estimates that no more than 3% of U.S. Ne groes applauded or participated in recent outbursts. What troubles him is that Congress, "in its obvious efforts to avoid rewarding the rioters," will embark on "a course...
...lasted scarcely a century. Recaptured by the Saracen King Saladin in 1187, Jerusalem remained in Moslem hands, except for a brief 15-year Christian reconquest, until World War I. The long sleep under Islam brought little peace, however, as Moslems battled for Jerusalem among themselves. The Saracens were soon overthrown by their Egyptian slave guards, the Mamelukes. The Mamelukes were in turn driven out by the Ottoman Turks, who captured the Holy City in 1517 and ruled it for 400 years. Though Christians were allowed to return to the city, a dispute between Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic clergy over...
...announcement came in an editorial in Red Flag, the party's most authoritative voice. Though the editorial mentioned no names, its meaning was clear. "During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, initiated and led by Chairman Mao," it read, "we have overthrown the top party person in authority taking the capitalist road, smashed the counter-revolutionary line he pursued and shattered his scheme to turn the dictatorship of the proletariat into a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie...
Died. Shukri el Kuwatly, 76, Syrian nationalist, a hawk-faced firebrand who fought against Turkish rule before World War I, then against the French until independence in 1941, two years later became Syria's first President, only to be overthrown in 1949 and forced into a five-year exile after which he returned as President until 1958 when he and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser merged their nations into the long-cherished but ill-fated United Arab Republic; of a heart attack; in Beirut...
...President Syngman Rhee; he was one of a chosen few to whom Rhee doled out, at the low official exchange rate, precious U.S. dollars that had been acquired by sales of valuable tungsten. For his profitable dealings in "tungsten dollars," Lee was branded an "illicit profiteer" when Rhee was overthrown in 1961 by Chung Hee Park. He fled to Japan, returned to Korea and resumed operations after Park decided he needed Lee's ability and overseas business contacts to help modernize South Korea. Lee was forced to pay $4,400,000 in back income taxes and tax-evasion penalties...