Word: overthrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Latin American dictatorships frequently suppress students," declared Einaudi who traveled to Argentina after the overthrow of the Peron regime. "Dictators are naturally apprehensive of the opinion of university students," he added, "since the intelligentsia has a great deal of influence in underdeveloped countries...
...state sedition act; then a Federal District Court added a milder five-year term for Smith Act violations. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out (6-3) Nelson's conviction by the state of Pennsylvania, ruled that the Federal Government alone may prosecute those who advocate its overthrow...
...case of Struik, a former professor of Physics at M.I.T., is still pending before the Middlesex County Court. He was charged in 1951 under Massachusetts law with "conspiring to overthrow the governments of Massachusetts and the United States...
...author of several anti-subversive measures, Representative Charles Ianello, claimed that federal prosecutions have been inadequate in convicting Communists. "Federal courts cannot make convictions without positive evidence that the defendant has tried to overthrow the government." He added that under state laws "easier convictions could be obtained...
...abiding as in Indonesia; in none is the notion of simple courtroom justice so little understood. Indonesia's bitterness and its slap-happy courtroom practices have reached fever pitch in the year-long trial of Leon Nicolaas Jungschlaeger, a 52-year-old Dutch citizen accused of conspiring to overthrow the Indonesian government. The Jungschlaeger case has become a cause celebre throughout Indonesia and The Netherlands...