Word: overthrowing
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Filipinos celebrated the second anniversary last month of the uprising they call the People Power revolution. But little of a revolutionary nature has occurred in the two years since the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos. Even as more parkland is being cleared for the well-heeled dead, life continues to balance on stilts over the brackish waters of Happy Land, a place of aching poverty and little hope...
...this training to push through more operations like the Iran-contra scam? Singer claims that this reasoning is a "redherring." But the salient issue in CIA training is that the CIA often pursues unsavory foreign policy initiatives, like the Iran-contra scam and the overthrow of Allende in Chile in 1973. The CIA is not just another government agency--it deserves extremely close scrutiny...
...pilot, 38-year-old Floyd Carlton, also said Noriega personally authorized air shipments of weapons to leftist guerillas in El Salvador and to Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua during the Sandinistas' successful fight to overthrow the government of Anastasio Somoza...
...Nicaraguan account to another firm. But after that firm declined to press a Nicaraguan case against the U.S. in the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Reichler struck out on his own. He prosecuted the case successfully, convincing the World Court that the U.S. was attempting to overthrow the Sandinista government...
...been a lucky career. In Williams' first full season as the Bucs' starter in 1979, he lifted the league's most woeful team to a 10-6 record and a playoff upset over Philadelphia. Still, he was ridiculed as a rocket launcher without temper or touch who "could overthrow the Ayatullah...