Word: overthrowing
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...Congress Party passed from being a representative of all nationalist elements regardless of religion to one of narrow Hindu interests. As Gandhi's craving for absolute power grew her toleration of rival parties diminished. She frequently relied on the constitutional clause investing the central government with the power to overthrow democratically elected state governments, a clause her predecessors judiciously ignored. On issues where her father tread lightly she became confrontational...
...Viet Cong or the Cuban-backed rebels in El Salvador. If it were, the Administration would likely be waving it as proof of its thesis about the sources of insidious world terrorism. In fact, however, it is a publication of the CIA, written for Nicaraguan contras seeking to overthrow the Sandinista regime. Its disclosure last week came as a political embarrassment to the Administration and a major moral one for the U.S. It stirred memories of CIA abuses that were supposedly outlawed a decade ago and gave Democrats a potentially hot new campaign issue...
...learn in ten easy steps how to overthrow the government of a small Central American nation by reading the Central Intelligence Agency's recently leaked "Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare," available soon in paperback...
...doesn't care at all about "free speech." They try to crush students who mobilize against the architects of an anticommunist bloodbath in Central America because when they look at EI Salvador and Nicaragua, they see the possibility of the Russian Revolution happening all over again. They see the overthrow of capitalism, the ripping away of their markets, their profits, an end to the despotic rule of the landlords, bosses, military, and the specter of workers and peasants taking power--as was done in 1917 in Russia under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party. Despite the bureaucratic degeneration...
...Nicaragua, Reagan has carefully muted his rhetorical support for the U.S.-backed contras in their effort to overthrow the Sandinista government, and in June he dispatched Shultz on a surprise trip to Managua in an effort to open negotiations with the Marxist-led regime. Even Mondale's advisers admit that the President has succeeded in lowering the profile of the Central American issue. "He's calmed it down," says Carter. "There are no Army maneuvers in Honduras...