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...visible, and most violence-prone, member of a new constellation of radical opposition groups that is sometimes called the Third Force, because it is both anti-Marcos and antiCommunist. The Third Force is composed mainly of middle-class Filipinos, many of them devout Catholics, who believe that the violent overthrow of Marcos' eight-year-old martial law regime is morally justified. Their reasoning: corruption and rigged elections have made peaceful opposition futile...
...member of the Harvard Lampoon, the Hasty Pudding Club and the Harvard Socialists during his undergraduate years, Reed covered the overthrow of the Czarist government for Metropolitan Magazine...
...Gang also savaged Confucius' once-untouchable reputation. "I don't know why they did it, except that he was a scholar and they didn't want people to be educated," Lynn says. In fact, since the overthrow of the Gang, which had drastically deemphasized higher education, college enrollment has mushroomed, and Lynn predicts the trend will ease pressure on high school students...
...large Arab minority. The cities would have been held for ransom against a settlement that would give Iraq control of the Shatt al Arab waterway, which it reluctantly agreed to share with the Shah of Iran in 1975. One of Baghdad's ultimate political goals is to overthrow the revolutionary government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who has urged Iraq's Shi'ite Muslims to oust Saddam Hussein...
...several years. President Hafez Assad has accused Saddam Hussein of starting a conflict that distracts Arab energies from the real war, i.e., against Israel. Worried about both his isolation and his vulnerability, Assad in recent months has accused Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia of backing subversives who want to overthrow his regime. On a visit to Moscow last week, he signed a 20-year Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev similar to the one that Moscow has with Iraq. The Kremlin has long sought such a treaty with Syria as a way of gaining...