With the overthrow of the King in the summer of 73, Daoud set up a government that was a combination of nationalists, like himself, and communists (University p

With the overthrow of the King in the summer of 73, Daoud set up a government that was a combination of nationalists, like himself, and communists (University people mostly trained in the US)which included many army people trained in the USSR. But by the late 70s, Daoud began eliminating the communists from his government, made them nervous so the army communists staged the coup with the university people in the key government positions.