Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dominican radio station Voz Dominicana has always had a big Haitian audience for its 8 o'clock Spanish music broadcast. One night last week, the station changed the program without notice. Instead of Spanish rhythms, startled Haitians heard a bland, firm voice calling for the overthrow of "that bloodthirsty, dishonest, cowardly assassin," Haitian President Dumarsais Estim...
...Party to trial. The twelfth, William Foster, 67-year-old party chairman, had begged off because of an ailing heart. The charge, hung on them last summer by a grand jury: they had conspired in 1945* to form the present Communist Party structure and teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government...
...daily and 67,000 Sunday, finances were as shaky as ever. And sallow, hard-bitten Editor John Gates, who had trained for journalism by fighting with the loyalists in Spain and helping organize the bloody "Little Steel" strike, was being tried on charges of plotting to overthrow the Government (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...gave him barely time to kiss his weeping, 85-year-old mother goodbye. Quietly, he said: "Very well," and quietly entered the waiting police car, rosary in hand. Sticking closely to the Sofia decisions, the government announced that Mindszenty was being held incommunicado on suspicion of "treason, attempting to overthrow the democratic regime, espionage and foreign currency abuses." The Communists gave out a long list of incriminating documents said to have been found in "a metal box buried in a cellar in the cardinal's palace...
Both countries, the council found, were guilty of disturbing the peace: Nicaragua for helping Costa Rican exiles launch the abortive invasion; Costa Rica for harboring the international Caribbean Legion, dedicated to the overthrow of dictatorial regimes in Nicaragua, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. The two quarreling neighbors were warned to be on their best behavior; for good measure, the council ordered a five-man military mission to oversee the troubled frontier...