Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refusal would have been within the law. There are laws requiring that aliens who at any time have been affiliated with groups advocating the violent or forceful overthrow of the U.S. government "shall be excluded." This legislation, the State Department explains, "has been held to be applicable to persons who are or were members of or affiliated with the Communist Party." And Emmanuel's wartime position could technically be considered such affiliation...