Word: overthrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentiments. Up to now, the American machinery of justice has operated on the premise that an individual can and should be punished for committing specific wrongs, but not solely for holding an opinion that is heretical to our concept of democracy. Stealing state secrets, conspiring to advocate the forceful overthrow of government or encouraging sabotage are included in the category of specific, punishable wrongs. Indicating an interest in Marxist philosophy or holding a membership card in the Communist Party have not been so included...
Plot & Counterplot. General Hinh and his eager young army officers thought the times called for more vigorous measures in southern Viet Nam, on the model of Colonel Nasser's in Egypt, to save the country from Communists. Last week, suspecting a "latent plot" to overthrow his government. Premier Diem abruptly relieved Hinh as chief of staff and ordered him to leave Saigon on the Air France plane next day for Paris on "six months' leave." Enclosed was a ticket. Defiantly, Hinh called the airline, told the clerk to cancel the reservation. To Diem he explained : "There...
...strength and disposition of the entire Iranian armed force, including an itemization and location of all U.S.-supplied equipment. Tragically enough, some of the ring's most useful informants were not Reds but pro-Mossadegh officers suckered into what they thought was a simple plot to overthrow Premier Zahedi's year-old regime...
...Smith Act of 1940. To convict, the Government had to prove 1) that the accused willingly joined the Communist Party, 2) that he knew the party's practice and purpose, and 3) that the practice and purpose of the party were advocating and striving for the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government...
...Utah machines. A fifth was picked up at a Denver airport, a sixth in Pueblo, and a seventh, who had underground contacts with the Colorado group, was nabbed in Los Angeles. Last week's coups brought the total of arrests under the Smith Act (conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the government by force) to 116 since 1948; already convicted...