Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This week, for the third time in seven weeks, Tito received a warning from a top-level Stalin henchman-Deputy War Minister Vasily Sokolovsky-that the Yugoslav people would overthrow...
...leading agitators of the 1948 Communist revolt was an unsavory little Chinese gambler named Wang Jen-shu, then 39, author of a pamphlet titled "How to Overthrow the Present Government and Achieve a Communist State." Last year, Wang came back to Indonesia as Red Chinese ambassador. He set about importing professional organizers (as part of his embassy staff), reviving the native Communist Party, building up what neighboring governments regard as Communist headquarters for Southeast Asia...
...Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes called him "a dangerous person." By 1936 Albizu's movement came to bloodshed. A Nationalist murdered the popular chief of the Insular Police, bringing on an investigation which landed Albizu in Atlanta federal prison; he served six years for conspiring to overthrow U.S. rule in Puerto Rico...
...were killed before the rising was put down. "The law will fall on whoever is responsible for this tragedy," promised Puerto Rican Governor Muñoz Marín. That meant Albizu Campos. Last week, in a half-empty courtroom, Albizu was convicted on twelve charges of trying to overthrow the Puerto Rican government by force. Maximum penalty on each charge: ten years in prison...
...with a "strong social urge," and arguing that Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson also "talked of revolution under certain circumstances." Now Schneiderman is in jail, waiting to stand trial in California with his fellow Reds on the familiar charge: conspiring to teach and advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government...