Word: overthrown
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Children's films--by which is meant movies about the young but not necessarily for them--have an honorable pedigree in Iran. The Shahrina sponsored a children's film festival for a dozen or so years before her husband was overthrown in 1979. Under the Ayatullah, as in the Pahlavi regime, Iranian films proved a valuable cultural export. Last month Majid Majidi's Children of Heaven became the first Iranian movie nominated for an Academy Award as best foreign film...
...Obasanjo is the only Nigerian military dictator ever to have relinquished power to an elected civilian government. That was back in 1979, although his elected successors were overthrown by General Ibrahim Babangida in 1983, and the military has governed ever since. Falae is a Yale-educated economist who served as Babangida's finance minister, although he campaigned against Obasanjo on the grounds of the general's links with the military. The deeper issue may be tribal: Falae and Obasanjo are both members of the Christian Yoruba tribe from the southwest, but Obasanjo has the backing of much of the north...
...Winds of change have blown in order to lift the injustice to which the world is subjected by America and its supporters and the Jews who are collaborating with them. Look at what is happening these days in Indonesia, where Suharto, a despot who ruled for 30 years, was overthrown. The time will come, sooner rather than later, when criminal despots who betrayed God and his Prophet, and betrayed their trust and their nation, will face the same fate...
...fighters will march on Baghdad, slicing away pieces of Saddam's territory as their offensives persuade demoralized Iraqi army units to desert. When civilians witness the burgeoning success of the insurgents, the brittle walls surrounding the dictator's regime will collapse amid a general uprising, and Saddam will be overthrown...
After a critical offsides penalty pushedPrinceton into a first-and-15 at midfield, juniorsafety Ben Green came up with a game-winningtakeaway, intercepting a badly overthrown ballfrom Burnham at the Harvard 27 to preserve aone-point lead...