Word: overthrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro has fled to the Dominican Republic to plot Scott's overthrow with Batista. "Overthrow, overpass--I'll give 'em free transportation to my island paradise if they feel they got the divisions. Man, I don't want this damn place, I just want to beautify it. I feel that this is the Canadian's burden," he observed...
...pushed through by that old crusader Karl Mundt--requires that a recipient of Federal grants or loans under the act sign a loyalty oath, stating "that he does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government by force or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods...
Carlos Prío Socarrás, 55, is the President who lost his job in Batista's 1952 coup, went into U.S. exile and spent a graft-gained fortune toward Batista's overthrow. Hated by many of the rebels, Prío is back in his $1,000,000 mansion near Havana and counting on a voice in the government...
...United Arab Republic President Nasser, blasted pro-Western Iraq out of the Middle East's dwindling pro-Wrestern line-up in one night's murderous palace revolution, the U.S. sent Sixth Fleet marines and Army paratroops into Lebanon at Lebanon's request to secure it from overthrow by Nasserite rebels. Results: the U.S. 1) stabilized the situation in Lebanon for a few crucial months at least, 2) demonstrated to its allies worldwide that it was able and ready to support them, 3) showed above all that the Russians, when confronted by U.S. deterrent power, tend to back...
...political climate changed in Venezuela and Betancourt returned to organize A.D. Four years later he and his party joined with a group of young army officers to overthrow President Isaias Medina Angarita. In power as provisional President, Betancourt overzealously tried to cram decades of reform and development into two brief years, thereby built a wall of resentment. He presided over the election that put A.D.'s Rómulo Gallegos, a noted novelist, into the presidency in 1948. Reports that A.D. planned to de-emphasize army influence by arming an irregular band of stalwarts helped turn the military against...