Word: overthrown
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...fists, kicks, batons, tear gas, riot police, or bullets but instead with definite success and governmental responsiveness. In a region that has for so long stymied the voice of its people and crushed their aspirations, thousands of Lebanese demonstrators have been given new hope. Without any violence, they have overthrown a government and compelled dictatorial Syria to agree to begin a withdrawal that it has delayed for well over a decade—quite substantial achievements for less than a month’s action...
...noted films to be screened is ¡Viva Chile M…!, which takes a journey through the sociocultural and political issues of the past 70 years in Chile and the U.S. Renowned Latin American writer/activist Fernando Alegria visits such hot topics as socialism, the Latino Revival and overthrown Chilean president Salvador Allende. Tickets $8. 9:10 p.m. Also screening at 6:30 p.m., Oct. 30th. Harvard Film Archive. Visit bliff.org for more info...
...greatest mystery, though, was his long game of deception: if Saddam had destroyed his WMD to escape from sanctions, why did he work so hard from 1991 until he was overthrown in 2003 to perpetuate the belief he still had them? The reason, suggests Duelfer, lay in how he saw the "survival of himself, his regime and his legacy." While the U.S. was fixated on Saddam's threat, he focused on his strategies for Iran and considered WMD essential to keeping his neighbor in check. So he was driven by what the report calls "a difficult balancing act": getting...
...electricity these days, but four years after Russian air strikes practically razed the city there is still no running water. The atmosphere is sour, too. Gathered in the apartment are members of the two main anti-Russian factions: the Wahhabis and those aligned with Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen President overthrown by the Russians in 2000. Jamal knows he can trust the non-Wahhabi resistance not to betray him. But Maskhadov's men emphasize their disdain for the Wahhabi prohibition on alcohol and tobacco by drinking vodka and smoking cigarettes as Jamal talks. In late August, when guerrillas cordoned off parts...
...DIED. THANOM KITTIKACHORN, 92, former Thai strongman whose military regime was overthrown in a bloody student-led uprising in 1973; in Bangkok. Thanom ruled Thailand in the '60s and early '70s as part of a triumvirate of dictators known as the "Three Tyrants," and allowed tens of thousands of U.S. troops to be stationed there during the Vietnam War. He fled into exile after being overthrown but returned in 1976, became a Buddhist monk, and never entered politics again...