Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extreme right-wing ers, moderates, left Socialists, and the old Druze chieftain, Sultan Pasha el Atrash - met secretly, organized the Popular Bloc, and agreed to bury their hatchet -in Shishekly's back. Still Shishekly did nothing. Three weeks ago, emboldened, the Popular Bloc plotted the final act, the overthrow of Shishekly. The climax was set for the night of Wednesday...
...Smith Act is directed against those who conspire for, teach, or advocate the overthrow of the U.S. government when there is the possibility that they will attain their objective or when there is a "clear and present danger...
...Smith Act which prosecutors have used to obtain numerous convictions against those accused of seeking overthrow of the Government by force or violence...
...Since he first started teaching them to ride motorcycles at his presidential quinta in suburban Olivos last August, he has hardly let a day pass without some kindness. Recently he gave the union the rambling old presidential palace on downtown Calle Suipacha-unused since President Ramon Castillo's overthrow in 1943-for a clubhouse. To notable girl athletes he gives a standard present: a plastic vanity case with $36 inside...
...President's actual proposal to Congress was, "I recommend that Congress enact legislation to provide that a citizen of the United States who is convicted in the courts of hereafter conspiring to advocate the overthrow of this government by force or violence be treated as having, by such act, renounced his allegiance to the United States and forfeited his United States citizenship...