Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government in that venture, plus President Kennedy's ill-considered promise to the exiles that "the flag of freedom will someday fly in the streets of Havana again," did nothing to dispel the belief of Cubans in the U.S. that this government was prepared to aid them overthrow the island's revolution...
...says, "are the ones that bother you." But the natural conflicts between two associated islands of dramatically different size, and with no particular common interests, were compounded by the person of Bradshaw, "who behaves as if he were paranoid," Fisher says. "He is fearful of an attempt to overthrow his government; he has political opponents locked in jail; he has emergency powers on; he has suspended all individual rights; people can be locked up indefinitely without charges being brought against them...
ROME, Dec. 13--King Constantine of Greece flew to Rome with the royal family early today while the Athens military regime claimed that the young monarch's attempt to overthrow it was smashed. The 27-year-old King declined to say anything upon his arrival in Rome...
...Nigria was in civil war, the Federal Government contending with two breakaway states. The Congo was struggling with a handful of white mercenaries and their rebel Katangese troops, who had managed to keep the Federal forces numbering 15,000 at bay for three months. Rumors of a plot to overthrow President Nyerere of Tanzania were circulating from ex-Vice President Kambona, in London for "health reasons." Serious Shifta terrorism occupied the Kenya army in the Northeastern Province along the border, while the ruling KANU party was denying that elections would be advanced from 1970 to '68 for their sake...
...flew off to Baghdad, hoping to round up support from other Arab Socialist friends. Hardly had his plane left the runway of Cairo Airport, when Nasser fired off a cable to the Yemeni capital at San'a. The cable did not actually tell the Republican army to overthrow Sallal, but it instructed Egyptian troops still in Yemen not to block a coup-just in case the army might be planning...