Word: overthrowing
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This week Solidarity will hold its first congress since 1981. Walesa will certainly be re-elected leader of the trade union, and that will give him a base to further his political ambitions. That now seems to be what most interests the man who led the Polish struggle to overthrow communism...
...former chief intelligence and security officer of the Bureau of Customs, Bibit was being held on charges of attempting to overthrow the government during the failed December coup. "Today I am free again to continue our struggle for the cause of good government," said Bibit...
...Lenin, it was the violent overthrow of the bourgeois capitalist system...
...another startling turnaround in an age of startling surprises, democracy burst forth where everyone least expected it. Given the chance to vote in an honest and secret election, Nicaraguans decisively repudiated the Sandinista government, which the U.S. had been struggling to overthrow for a decade...
...force could still do the trick cost effectively, the U.S. was willing to use it, as in Grenada and Panama. But in Nicaragua, wittingly or not, Washington stumbled on an arm's-length policy: wreck the economy and prosecute a long and deadly proxy war until the exhausted natives overthrow the unwanted government themselves. For Americans, the cost was minimal. True, bruising annual battles over Central America splintered Congress, and the Iran-contra scandal hobbled Ronald Reagan's second term, but hardly any U.S. soldiers were dying...