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Another question left unanswered is that of credibility. How many people outside the U.S. will ignore the irony, of American calls for democracy in light of our government's history of engineering the overthrow of democratically elected governments? Although American citizens possess a notoriously short and often severely abridged sense of history, the governments has acknowledged openly its role in overturning democracy in Iran(1953), Guatemala(1954), and Chile(1973). And the rest of the world has not forgotten...
...Egyptian air force has been put on general alert, and large army units have been deployed along the Libya-Sudan border. Nonetheless, Gaddafi's meddling seems tireless. Only four weeks ago, the Saudi government executed three officers who were accused of conspiring with Libyan agents to try to overthrow the Saudi royal family. Nobody can tell how and when, if at all, Gaddafi-prompted tremors will erupt. But Reagan's reference to "Libya's attempts to destabilize its neighbors" can be disputed...
...speech, sponsored by the Harvard Lawyers Guild, Francisco Campbell, first secretary for political affairs at the Nicaraguan Embassy in Washington, said that American support of the Somocist counter revolutionaries is "a concerted, systematic effort to undermine and eventually overthrow the Sandinista government...
...dead. According to the Nicaraguans, the incident was the latest in a series of 500 such attacks in the past year; as many as 440 civilians and military men have been killed. The Bismuna battle, they protested, was part of a continuing effort by the Reagan Administration to overthrow the Sandinista government. Says Rosario Murillo, director of the Sandinista Association of Nicaraguan Cultural Workers: "Nicaragua is in a state...
...Middle East peace efforts in the late 1970s, the KGB circulated a number of ingenious forgeries, some on U.S. State Department stationery, suggesting that U.S. officials had serious doubts about Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. One phony dispatch from the U.S. embassy in Tehran spelled out Iranian-Saudi plans to overthrow Sadat with American complicity. Soviet agents also distributed inflammatory "letters" from U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Hermann Eilts and a fictitious press interview in which then Vice President Walter Mondale expressed concern about Sadat's leadership...