Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...their ruling Arab cohorts, a radical Shi'ite takeover of Iraq and the weakening of Iraq as a military counter to Iran and Syria. The pragmatists added a kicker -- probably wishful: just forcing Saddam out of Kuwait would humiliate him so badly that it might lead to his overthrow. Said Bush last week: "It wouldn't disappoint me if the Iraqis got up and said, 'Look, this man is our problem.' " But he stopped short of setting that down as an American objective...
Eight months after Operation Just Cause sent U.S. troops into Panama to overthrow General Manuel Noriega, the government of President Guillermo Endara seemed to be on the verge of imploding. A wave of murders, muggings and robberies spread through Panama City last week, while the quibbling among Endara and his two Vice Presidents reached new levels...
That was about the last time the U.S. had any control over Doe. When Thomas Quiwonkpa, a Gio and former army commander, tried to overthrow him, Doe had Quiwonkpa killed and eviscerated. Worse yet, Doe turned his soldiers loose on Gio tribal villages in Nimba County. Until then, Liberia had been relatively free of such hostilities, but the massacres started a tribal war that is still raging today...
Next, Saddam upped the ante by explicitly threatening Saudi Arabia and the other gulf states, issuing a call for the overthrow of the "Emirs of oil." Ever since his capture of Kuwait, Saddam has played on Arab xenophobia and proclaimed himself the leader of a campaign to redistribute Arab wealth from the rich gulf monarchies to the poorer republics, or at least to Iraq...
...Saddam nearly brought his regime to ruin when he attacked Iran. He had once given refuge to the Ayatullah Khomeini, then, under pressure from the Shah, expelled him. Not only did Saddam want disputed territory, but he was also provoked when Khomeini began calling for the overthrow of Saddam's "blasphemous" regime. He is a Sunni Muslim, though most Iraqis belong to the rival Shi'ite branch, as did Khomeini. Saddam responded by invading, confident that his powerful, Soviet-equipped army could easily smash the Ayatullah's ragtag militia, but the Iranians fought back. When the going got especially rough...