Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alumni committee proposal acceptable to most of the faculty. Under this proposal the oath is not separately administered but is an affirmation included in each new contract of employment; the affirmation is essentially the same as the old oaths of non-membership in "any organization which advocates the overthrow of the government by force or violence...
...believe in and am not a member of, nor do I support any party or organization that believes, in, advocates or teaches the overthrow of the government of the United States by force or by any illegal unconstitutional methods...
Since his overthrow five years ago by a Brazilian army clique, ex-Dictator Getulio Vargas has lived the quiet life of a gentleman gaucho on his estancia in Rio Grande do Sul. To visitors he spoke of his ranch as "this secluded spot so remote from political agitation." He smoked long cigars, wore a cowboy's bombachas, tended his cattle, and waited...
Military Initiative. The most conspicuous of the Philippines' difficulties are caused by the Communist-led Huks, peasant insurgents who are trying to overthrow the government. Philippine army intelligence says it has definitely identified only 6,000 armed Huks and another 4,000 who serve as reinforcements, propagandists and supply troops. More ominous is an official estimate that 60% to 70% of the peasants in Huk areas are supporting the rebels, who now operate in 18 of the 24 provinces of Luzon as well as on a few of the smaller islands...
Died. W. W. Yen (Yen Hunching), 73, Chinese elder statesman and onetime Prime Minister (1924-26) of the Republic of China; in Shanghai. After the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty by Sun Yat-sen in 1911, frail, U.S.-educated Dr. Yen served as a diplomat to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. He came out of retirement last year to head an unofficial four-man mission to Peking which tried unsuccessfully to make peace with the Communists...