Word: overthrowing
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Chorn and Hong began their account with the 1975 overthrow of King Sihanouk by Pol Pot's Marxist Khmer Rouge forces. Cities were emptied as intellectuals, lighted skinned Cambodians, and monks were herded into farming camps where they were worked to death, they said...
Seeing that Reagan was on the verge of a startling policy pronouncement, the reporters asked four more times whether he wanted to topple the Sandinistas. < But now the President bobbed and weaved, aware of the uproar that such a declaration would cause. The Administration would not seek to overthrow the Sandinistas, he explained, if they agreed to "say Uncle" and put in place a more pluralistic form of government that would include the contra rebels who have been fighting the Marxist-Leninist regime. "You can say we're trying to oust the Sandinistas by what we're saying," he noted...
...real objective of Administration policy, said Shultz in a speech in San Francisco on Friday before the Commonwealth Club of California, is not to overthrow the Sandinistas but to modify their behavior. The Administration wants to force the Sandinistas to make four major concessions: to stop serving as a Soviet surrogate and expel the Soviet and Cuban advisers at present in the country; to reduce the size of their armed forces, now numbering more than 100,000, to the size of those in neighboring countries (18,000 in Honduras, 49,000 in El Salvador); to "absolutely and definitively stop their...
...have spiraled upward. The country's economic straits are "hellish," says President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Yet the number who are angry enough to support the contras continues to be small, perhaps because the rebels have done such a poor job of defining what they stand for, aside from the overthrow of the Sandinistas...
Chavez, who heads the United Farm Workers, called for "the overthrow of a system that treats farm workers like they are not important human beings...