Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even know if I saw the ball," Glatz said. "I do remember looking up and then putting my head down and running harder because I thought the pass was overthrown. Then I just threw my hands up in the air and it just fell in my hands...
...daughter of the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, once the Prime Minister of Pakistan. While still in her 20s, she rallied the supporters of her Western-educated father after he was overthrown in a 1977 military coup and hanged two years later. She became the official opposition leader in 1986 and a strong challenger to her father's nemesis, President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. Last week the articulate Benazir Bhutto, 34, a graduate of Harvard and Oxford, astonished friends and foes alike by announcing that she had agreed to an arranged marriage to a wealthy Pakistani businessman whom...
...Moscow-dominated government remained in power, Gorbachev invited the Afghans to seek new leadership "in their own country, among refugees and emigrants abroad, or maybe in . . . Italy." That was an apparent reference to Mohammed Zahir Shah, 72, who served as Afghanistan's monarch from 1933 until he was overthrown in 1973, and now lives near Rome. Some rebel groups have said that Zahir would be an acceptable leader...
...followed by Somoza II and III, all supported politically and financially by the United States. The dynasty reached its fullest flower with Somoza III, who sold everything he could find in Nicaragua, including the blood of his fellow citizens, to the United States. The Somozas persevered until they were overthrown by Sandino's spiritual successors, the Sandinistas...
...constitution should preclude another dictatorship like that of the Duvaliers, which after 29 years in power was overthrown 14 months ago. If all goes according to plan, the current military council will disband next February and turn over power to an elected President who will share power with a Prime Minister. Both will be answerable to a 97-member legislature. Governing under such a system will no doubt be difficult. But most Haitians agree it is essential in a country where the legend of the Duvaliers is more terrifying than the spirits of the dead...