Word: overthrown
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...Silver Prize at the 1998 Carthage Film Festival and was widely appreciated for its analysis of social relationships in conservative southern Egypt. DIED. FERNANDO BELAUNDE, 89, two-time President of Peru lauded as the "paradigm of democracy"; in Lima. Belaunde first came to power in 1963 before being overthrown in a 1968 military coup. After spending 10 years in exile, he returned to Peru to win the presidential elections by a landslide in 1980. Belaunde was also Peru's first democratically elected President to peacefully surrender power to a successor...
...have to satisfy senators that he's made his case for an invasion before the American people. Second, Bush will have to spell out "what happens after you succeed," says this senior aide. Will the administration remain in Iraq for the long haul after Saddam is overthrown? "Who fills the vacuum?" asks Sen. John Warner, the senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee. "Are there persons who exist who can step in and gain the confidence of the Iraqi people and lead that nation?" Bush, he argues, must "inform the American people and others of the consequences...
...some of those who took advantage of Perón's hospitality, this last revelation is as deplorable as anything in Goñi's investigations. The roll call of indicted Nazi war criminals who ended up living more or less openly in Argentina until Perón was overthrown in 1955 includes Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Eduard Roschmann, Klaus Barbie, Ante Pavelic, Gerhard Bohne and Erich Priebke. This may be a matter-of-fact account of a sordid incident. But by keeping emotion at arm's length Goñi heightens the impact...
...traditional music with an orchestra of “Bruiteurs” that interrupted traditional compositions with grunts and hisses. The Bruiteurs shared the revolutionary spirit of the Dadaists, who believed that traditional cultural institutions, symbolic of societies responsible for the brutality of the First World War, must be overthrown...
...past quarter century, first among the royals, then among the communists and finally among the anti-Soviet mujahedeen - and right now its the latter who are reclaiming power. King Zahir Shah, who the U.S. hopes will return from exile in Rome and lead a democratic renaissance, was overthrown in 1973 by his cousin, Mohammed Daoud, who was himself overthrown by a communist military coup in 1978. But as infighting among two rival communist factions became more violent and chaotic, the Soviets invaded in 1979 and installed their preferred faction. That united a plethora of mujahedeen groups, who, with the backing...