Word: overthrew
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...based multinational companies have long since written off as dead losses the Chilean operations that were expropriated by the late Marxist President Salvador Allende. But last week the new Chilean Foreign Minister, Ismael Huerta, announced at the U.N. that the military junta that overthrew Allende in a bloody coup last month has reopened negotiations with Anaconda and Kennecott with a view toward paying them something for those giant copper mines -Anaconda's Chuquicamata and Kennecott's El Teniente-that Allende expropriated. Some other members of the Chilean U.N. mission even dropped hints that Anaconda and Kennecott might actually...
...1960s and leave the last chapter unwritten. After all, he was prone to observe, "this revolution will be judged by the way it ends." Even though a politician, Markezinis was in no position to predict what course would be taken by the military regime of Dictator George Papadopoulos, which overthrew Greece's constitutional government...
Three members of the Harvard-Radcliffe ski team spent the summer skiing against international competition in Argentina and Chile--and barely caught one of the last planes from Chile before the military junta overthrew the government of the late Salvador Allende last month and prevented foreigners from entering or leaving the country...
...Chilean military dictatorship is certainly repressive. It overthrew a legally elected president, subverted the Chilean constitution, and is at present murdering its opponents after outlawing their political parties. One would have difficulty in finding a government better suited for diplomatic ostracism from the international community...
...blamed the failure of democracy in Vietnam not on the conditions that made their definition of democracy inadequate, but on the one factor in the situation that they could readily change--the South Vietnamese government. Because it was loyal to the ideal of political democracy, therefore, the Kennedy Administration overthrew General Diem. And because a merely political democracy was impossible in Vietnam, General Diem's successors inevitably ruled even less democratically than...