Word: overthrowing
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...youth group. The organizations challenged the FBI on the grounds that it falsely recast the organizations as terrorist groups. The suit forced the FBI to redefine the organization exactly as it is--a Marxist political organization--instead of attributing to the group a conspiratorial commitment to violent overthrow of the government...
...final report on the entire handbook operation, the House Intelligence Committee last week concluded that the manual, which advised rebels to "neutralize" opponents, violated a 1982 law barring efforts to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. But the panel blamed the illegal action on "negligence, not intent to violate the law." That may not be the end of the matter, however. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, promised that his panel will "take a much harder look at overall CIA management...
...situation in Nicaragua is less hopeful, and the choice for Washington painfully limited. There is no serious prospect that, by themselves, the counterrevolutionaries, or contras, could overthrow the Sandinista regime, much as that would be in the American national interest. But they have proved important as an instrument to make the regime more malleable; there is little evidence to support the opposite view, that they solidified the regime. By cutting off aid to the contras, Congress irresponsibly deprived the U.S. of an important bargaining counter...
...miners' leader: last year, while visiting Moscow, Scargill noted that the threat to world peace came from that "most dangerous duo, President Ray-Gun and the plutonium blond, Margaret Thatcher." He also attacked the outlawed Polish trade union Solidarity as "an anti-socialist organization which desires the overthrow of a socialist state...
...agreement." "There is only one form I know of," replied D'Escoto, "signed by Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Venezuela and Nicaragua, rejected by the U.S." And again to the core of the matter: "The U.S. government did not and will not sign because the Reagen administration is committed to the overthrow of the Sandinistas...