Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sanctions have been or are likely to be, the world has not as yet devised a more workable form of pressure against Rhodesia. In Cairo last week, the leaders of five African nations concluded a so-called "mini-sum mit" on Rhodesia by demanding that Smith be overthrown by force of arms. Such demands have been heard before in Africa; they are not only demagogic but silly. No responsible government gives serious thought to a war against Rhodesia. And for all the calls to arms, not a single nation anywhere in the world has ever volunteered...
...which sets a new record even for restless Africa. The change took place while British United Airways Flight 321 from London to Freetown bore homeward Lieut. Colonel Ambrose Patrick Genda, 39, who had been summoned from his United Nations diplomatic post to head a new military junta, which had overthrown Army Commander David Lansana, who had arrested Prime Minister Siaka Stevens, who had been named to replace Prime Minister Sir Albert Margai, whose government apparently lost last fortnight's elections...
...power, the February Revolution was unplanned and unplotted. In a nation teeming with would-be revolutionaries, the uprising was a total-and embarrassing-surprise. Lenin himself was in Zurich, and only two months previously had mournfully predicted that his generation would not live long enough to see the Czar overthrown, so distant seemed the prospect. "Who led the revolution?" Socialist Leon Trotsky later asked. He answered himself ruefully: "Nobody. It happened of itself...
...analytic essays take a step back from actual revolutionary experience, and raise some questions about revolution in general. In "Roots and Direction of Nigerian Revolution," F. Chukwuma Obinani shows that the political order must be relevant to economic needs. Obinani feels that the government was overthrown, although it maintained law and order, because the political system did not try to fulfill the economic needs...
...much as any African leader, Kwame Nkrumah relished the plush life that power can buy. The self-styled redeemer of Ghana nearly bankrupted his country by building palatial hotels, modernistic palaces and a cozy hideaway for his favorite mistress. Even after he was overthrown last February, it seemed likely that Nkrumah would continue to wield power and enjoy life as few exiles ever had. Guinea's President Sekou Touré gave Nkrumah a hero's welcome and startled the world by proclaiming that the visitor was coPresident. Said Touré: "Nkrumah belongs to all Africa, not just Ghana...