Word: cabal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buffoons who had a place only in the garbage of history." Lin was again condemned for "preaching the rubbish of Confucianism as part of his attempt to restore capitalism in China." It is almost as if the gentle philosopher were still alive and well and leading a counterrevolutionary cabal...
Back in Buenos Aires, Peron joined the G.O.U. (Group of United Officers), a cabal of extreme-right-wing colonels who shared his belief that Argentina was destined to become the Germany of Latin America. In 1943 they staged a coup against the bumbling government of Ramón Castillo (who, ironically, was pro-Nazi himself). Perón backed the naming of General Pedro Ramírez as a figurehead replacement. For himself, he cannily took the directorship of the moribund Department of Labor. Turning it into the government's most active branch, Perón used the department...
...midst of Watergate, 40 years after the incident occurred, it has a certain sinister plausibility not widely evident in 1933. At the time, the newspapers reported some allegations that a big business cabal had hatched a "plot"-the headlines generally put it in quotes. Its aim was to undo F.D.R.'s power and install a "Secretary of General Affairs" to take effective control of the Executive as a dictator...
...Ponts and J.P. Morgan. The general was offered an extravagant budget - $3,000,000 for starters, with a possible $300 million if necessary - to mobilize an army of 500,000 veterans and lead them to Washington, there to force Roosevelt into accepting "the popular will." The cabal even had a man touring Europe to study the Fascists' success with certain veterans' groups...
...Republican candidate, Houston History Teacher Henry C. Grover, 45. Grover came out of nowhere for several reasons -the Nixon landslide, Briscoe's own indifferent campaign, the presence of a Mexican-American candidate who drew many Chicano votes that normally would have gone to the Democrats. Backed by a cabal of ultra-right Houston businessmen, Grover did not mount an attractive campaign: he railed against revenue sharing and state taxes on personal and corporate income, and told a Houston TV interviewer that "I just don't care about the black and Chicano vote." Briscoe finally emerged as the narrow...