Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. A. Cecil Snyder, 51, Baltimore-born Chief Justice (1953-57) of Puerto Rico's Supreme Court, who helped draft Puerto Rico's commonwealth status, as district attorney convicted (1936) Nationalist Party Boss Albizu Campos of trying to overthrow the U.S. Government; of a heart attack; near San Juan...
...African government. Luthuli, who has spent time in jail for various nationalistic activities, was banned from attending any meetings or gatherings and barred from travel outside his home province. Legally, this move seems inexcusable, since the action amounts to limiting freedom on mere suspicion of intention to advocate the overthrow of the government. However, under South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act and Riotous Assemblies Act, all things are possible. (Luthuli was scheduled to be the principle speaker at a mass meeting of the African National Congress on Saturday...
...girls of the village of Nombre de Dios (Name of God) strolled toward the azure Caribbean one day last week, arm in arm with the Cuban invaders who had come to Panama to overthrow the democratic government of President Ernesto de la Guardia. As the landing craft taking them off to jail in Panama City backed off the beach, Expedition Commander Cesar Vega and his 83 men (plus a 24-year-old Cuban girl) broke into a song that Castro's rebels used to sing in Cuba's Sierra Maestra. The girls of Nombre...
Only real winner: Dominican Republican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who has a firm precedent for appealing to the OAS if and when Cuban rebels try to help overthrow...
Dramatic by itself, the fall in fatalities is even more startling in light of the fact that Colombia's government is only half functioning. Forced into a 1957 alliance to overthrow Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, the perpetually warring Liberal and Conservative parties invented a rigid agreement to divide political power equally for the next 16 years. Every political organism, from Congress to town councils, was neatly bisected. Liberal Leader Alberto Lleras Camargo last August took the first four-year stint as President, with the understanding that he would be succeeded by a Conservative...