Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haitian government source said shortly after daybreak three military officers, including Maj. Gen. Herard Abraham, the army commander in chief, had overthrown Avril and that Abraham was placed in charge of the government. The source spoke on condition of anonymity...
...year-old Roman Catholic priest, a socialist who is widely called a "prophet." Formerly a little- known worker among the dispossessed of his parish, Aristide is the only authentic leader who has emerged from the Haitian masses during the chaotic period since the despised dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier was overthrown...
Perhaps the most intractable of the country's troubles is the war in the south, pitting the local African population, largely Christian and animist, against the predominantly Arab Muslim government of the north. Former President Gaafar Nimeiri, who was overthrown in a popular uprising in 1985, aggravated the existing religious and racial differences by imposing a set of harsh Islamic laws that call for floggings and amputations for criminal offenses even by non-Muslims. Abolition of the laws is a key demand of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army, whose antigovernment rebels control much of the rural south...
Stone finds some solace in the fact that the Athenians didn't try Socrates until he was 70 years old. At that time, Athens was in the throes of 10 years of turmoil during which the democracy twice was overthrown. Socrates taught many of the anti-democratic usurpers and his doctrines could easily be seen as inciting them toward future rebellion. In 411 and 404 B.C., Socrates, if only through his silence, sided with the forces of dictatorship. In 401 B.C., two years before Socrates went on trial, the enemies of democracy began plotting again...
...warned him that certain contra leaders were involved in the drug trade but maintains he knew nothing about his land being used for narcotics trafficking. He angrily disputes allegations by Senate investigators that his motive for helping the contras was to make a profit. If the Sandinistas are not overthrown, he wrote in a position paper forWalsh that he provided to TIME, "Central America will be lost and North America will cease to be a world power and eventually fall under the yoke of Communism." To Hull, Senate Subcommittee Chairman John Kerry and his colleagues are Communist dupes. "When...