Word: overthrowing
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...other political phenomenon, by what it stands for. Suppose you believe that justice was on the side of the central government in the American Civil War. Does that commit you to oppose the Paris Commune of 1870 or the Hungarian revolution of 1956? In Salvador, the rebels want to overthrow the President, a Christian Democrat. In Nicaragua, the rebels want to overthrow the President, a Marxist-Leninist. To judge rebels by who they are and what they fight for, and against, is not a political morality of convenience. It is simple logic...
...Seyed Ali Khamene'i was delivering a speech at the University of Tehran, a terrorist detonated a homemade bomb strapped around his waist, killing himself and five other people. The President, who escaped unhurt, blamed the attack on Iran's own Mujahedin-e Khalq guerrillas, who are trying to overthrow the country's leader, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
Iraq's frustration lies in the realization that it is not strong enough militarily to force Iran to discuss peace. Khomeini, enraged that Saddam started the war, has vowed that he will accept nothing less than the overthrow of Iraq's President and its ruling Baath Party--and Saddam is not about to assent to his own downfall. In an effort to persuade Iran to negotiate by choking off its oil revenues, the Iraqis began attacking tanker traffic in the Persian Gulf last March. Since the start of the "tanker war," 44 oil carriers have been hit. The campaign...
...maintain Republican support for U.S. policy there. Only 13 weeks later, Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown and subsequently slain. Though various accounts linked the U.S. to the coup against the recalcitrant Diem, Lodge always maintained that he had done nothing either to "stimulate or thwart" the overthrow. Lodge resigned in 1964, took part in the presidential election campaign and then returned to Saigon, becoming involved in a peace effort that ultimately failed. He continued to field diplomatic assignments for many more years...
...play brother." Speaking to a group of Canadian business executives during a Time Inc. news tour in Washington, Delaware's Democratic Senator Joseph Biden charged that "we have simply been lied to" about the Administration's aims in supporting the Nicaraguan rebels. Said Biden: "If (Reagan) wants to overthrow the government, make the case to overthrow the government...