Word: overthrown
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...have a chance against Griffin. Sanders has the backing of a host of anti-Griffinites, including Georgia's key newspapers (the "Atlanta integrationist press," as Griffin calls it). Sanders also figures to benefit by the fact that Georgia's county-unit voting system has at last been overthrown by the courts. In years past, state elections in Georgia were decided not on popular votes but on a complex system where by each county was permitted so many unit votes in the ballot box. Invariably, this gave the rural counties a hugely dis proportionate balance of power against...
...World War II's Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw Haw, sometimes outdo even the Cuban Communists. Three times a week, Radio Habana turns its antennas directly at Guatemala for a rabble-rousing half-hour broadcast by Jacobo Arbenz, 48, the Red-lining ex-President of Guatemala who was overthrown eight years ago and now hopes to return via Cuba...
...this year, unlike last, Cuba's revolutionaries have very little to congratulate themselves about. The regime still stands -a well-armed dictatorship is not easily overthrown, as the Bay of Pigs fiasco demonstrated. Yet it is a leadership in disarray, increasingly ostracized by its hemispheric neighbors, beset by economic catastrophe and torn by a bitter, not yet settled internal struggle for power...
...President Rómulo Betancourt, who was himself once stripped of executive power by Venezuela's military. Betancourt refused to recognize the new Argentine government, recalled his diplomats from Buenos Aires, and sent a cable to 15 hemisphere presidents, including Kennedy. Declared Betancourt: "Legitimate government has been overthrown. This violent method of effecting changes in government has been an obstacle of singular importance hindering normal and progressive development and progress in Latin America. A firm stand seems to be called for so that the men who executed the coup d'état in Argentina will feel that international...
Scarcely 16 months ago, autocratic, anti-Communist President Diem had narrowly missed being overthrown by mutinous paratroopers, and this time he was taking no chances. With the agility born of experience, short, stocky Diem dashed down the stairs of the palace's east wing to a cellar fortified against such emergencies, flashed word by telephone to his military commanders just as a napalm bomb turned the west wing into a smoky shambles. In a west wing apartment, meanwhile, Diem's brother and sister-in-law, Braintruster Nhu (still clad in pajamas) and Presidential Hostess Mme. Nhu, snatched three...