Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio transmitters within Czechoslovakia with which they could either jam all Czechoslovak broadcasts or beam their own propaganda into the country's homes. They had also, reported Prchlík, invited ex-Party Boss Novotny to Moscow to broadcast a plea for Dubček's overthrow via their network. (Last week Novotny was waiting things out at a country villa at Rokycany, about nine miles from Pilsen, where he was under close surveillance.) The Russian embassy in Prague contains a printing plant that has been turning out a stream of antireform leaflets...
...Communist bloc; they were supposed to withdraw by the end of June, but did not. Throughout the week, Dubček was reportedly on the phone to Moscow to find out why. One report had Brezhnev bluntly telling him that the Soviet troops were needed to prevent the overthrow of Communism in Czechoslovakia...
...that tear at the shadowy revolutionary council, whose 38 or so members make the major government decisions. Papadopoulos is pressing his cause with a special urgency. Worried about the feuding factions within the council, he feels that a constitution would somehow make less likely his regime's possible overthrow by military hotheads...
...offensive, Ky was much more than a ceremonial Vice President alongside his rival, President Nguyen Van Thieu. Liked by American officials in Viet Nam, who admired his charm, his boundless energy and his decisiveness, Ky retained powerful friends in the Vietnamese armed forces-an entourage rated strong enough to overthrow Thieu if it ever came to a showdown. But with Tet and the harrowing onslaught against the Saigon government, the U.S., for the sake of preserving unity in the crisis, could no longer afford to balance between Thieu and Ky. Washington threw its support squarely behind Thieu, and Ky felt...
...chief, General Raoul Salan, who was serving a life term. Taking advantage of De Gaulle's mood, one of his bitterest enemies returned to France. He was Georges Bidault, 68, a Fourth Republic Premier who fled the country in 1962 after being implicated in an O.A.S. plot to overthrow De Gaulle. Bidault, an extreme rightist, seemed unlikely to play a major role in the elections, but he indicated his willingness to stand for office and aimed withering criticism at Gaullism ("What is Gaullism without De Gaulle if it is not stew without a rabbit...