Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short, optimistic months of Venezuela's Action Democrdtica government, bright young (31) Leonardo Ruiz Pineda was a cabinet minister. In the same period, tough Pedro Estrada was a small-time detective, spying for various Caribbean dictators. The overthrow of the legally elected A.D. regime by a military junta in November 1948 changed the course of both men's lives...
...Leader was careful not to make any warlike promises which might queer the party's official peace offensive. But he made it plain that short of war, the Soviet Union will assist "struggles of liberation," as in Korea, struggles for the "retirement" of "warlike governments" and the overthrow of capitalism, as in Czechoslovakia and China, and the promotion of war between "imperialist" states...
...membership rule would play an important role should the Massachusetts anti-subversive bill be invoked against a student group. The Attorney General may judge a group subversive when it contains more than three persons who advance the overthrow of the government, and he can subpoena a group's membership list if they are held in University Hall. There is a fine of $1,000 and or three years in jail for being a member of such a subversive organization...
Struik, suspended M.I.T. professor, is presently under indictment charging him with advocating the overthrow of the government by force or violence...
Struik was indicted by a grand jury on charges of conspiring to overthrow the government by force and violence. The indictment brought protests by faculty members here, saying that it was a violation of academic freedom...