Word: overthrowe
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...most stores were closed. President Gaafar Nimeiri, the wily strongman who had weathered a succession of coup attempts during an almost 16-year reign, was outside the country. Now, with Nimeiri stranded in Egypt on his way back from a visit to Washington, the people exulted at his overthrow by Suwar al Dahab and the Sudanese military. Some brandished the old yellow, green and blue-striped flag that had been replaced the year Nimeiri came to power; others ripped down + pictures of the ousted leader; still others held up currency bills with the former President's face...
...like Malcolm X just before his death, believed that the Black movement should concentrate on educating all races, especially young people, about suffering of Blacks and the injustices brought upon them. This focus was a direct repudiation of the factics of action groups like the Panthers that tried to overthrow society. The Fire Next Time, unlike Soul On Ice, is not concerned with history or politics but rather with how it feels to be an outsider, to be Black in a white world. Baldwin believed you can't force society to change, that you have to change attitudes before...
...have sent in air support to relieve the French at Dien Bien Phu; as Ike's Vice President, Nixon says, he counseled that "our choice was to help the French now or be faced with the necessity of taking over the burden." He condemns President Kennedy for the overthrow of Diem, which he argues led to political instability from which South Viet Nam never recovered. He faults Lyndon Johnson for halting bombing, rather than intensifying it, to encourage diplomacy; for fighting a limited war, seeking "not to win, but only not to lose"; and, above all, for failing to blockade...
Even if the U.S. pulled out the stops on its support for the contras, most experts agree these forces could not bring about the overthrow of the Sandinistas--an objective that the President has come within a hairbreadth of supporting. Nor is there much chance that Congress will restore direct aid to the contras unless they, and their sponsors in the Administration, are willing to accept a political compromise...
...problem is that if international law stands for anything, it stands for the idea that sovereignty is sacred. Rebels, by definition, do not have it. The governments they fight, no matter how tyrannous, do. How, ask congressional critics, can one justify violating the sovereignty of other countries by helping overthrow the legitimate government...