Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week Prosecutor Saypol was busy as a sheepdog. He was trying to keep a handful of second-string Communists within the law's purview, to make sure that they are still on hand when it comes time to try them for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow...
Next day, in the name of President Jacobo Arbenz, who took over from Arevalo last March, the government radio broadcast a threat: the "enemies of the people" planning the overthrow of his government would be given "a lesson they would never forget." Undeterred, a crowd of 10,000 gathered in front of the National Palace, chanted the national anthem, flourished anti-Communist placards...
...week for Communists and Communist angels alike. Seventeen second-rung Communists, who were arrested last month on charges of conspiring to teach and advocate the overthrow of the Government, also appeared before Judge Ryan for arraignment. They were released on bail-$171,000 of it supplied by Field's outfit, $5,000 from Field's own pocket. Another four had eluded arrest and disappeared. It was a good guess they were in touch with Comrade Gus Hall and friends, somewhere...
...what was on the Government's mind. Attorney General Howard McGrath indicated that his department was after Communist "leaders" (perhaps 100). Any Communist who valued his freedom would henceforth have to think twice before taking an executive post in the Communist Party's Moscow-directed conspiracy to overthrow...
...Villains. The charges against Grösz: black-marketeering, helping non-Communist refugees to escape to the West, plotting with the U.S. to overthrow the Hungarian government. The Communist version of the "plot": Yugoslavia...