Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only one force in Argentina rivals the power of the military: the 2,500,000-member General Labor Confederation. Through its strikes, demonstrations and exorbitant pay demands, the confederation has triggered the overthrow of three of the country's last six Presidents. Last week, for a change, Argentina's polo-playing Strongman Juan Carlos Onganía suddenly made things hot for the confederation. In rapid succession, he temporarily dissolved the country's six largest labor unions, representing more than 625,000 workers, froze the bank accounts of 100 union leaders, and enacted a new law empowering...
...support of certain organizations and even for building a good image. As a Christian and a university professor, however, I cannot condone your uncritical defense of the CIA as an agency for molding opinion or atmosphere -as was apparently the objective in the N.S.A. subsidy-or for aiding the overthrow of foreign governments. It is this acting on intelligence rather than simply gathering it that frightens me. Incidents such as the U-2 flight and President Eisenhower, and the Bay of Pigs fiasco and President Kennedy, have suggested that even the chief executive is not fully informed of CIA actions...
...would be amazed if such a group did not urge other radcials also to defend 2-S. After all, as Brecht says: When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming. And shouldn't revolutionaries act just like the exploiting class they would, allegedly, overthrow? Let us not act in the interest of the collective! Selfish opportunism is what capitalism trains people to expect. Don't scare the j"spoon fed" masses with some newfangled morality...
...language. They have done nothing of the sort; the language is incapable of liberty, one man's tongue being tied to the next man's ear. But if Joyce failed to liberate the language, instead attempting to make it his private domain, he did try to overthrow the English ascendancy of grammar and set up his own fabulous linguistic kingdom...
...sessions. "As the situation now stands," said Nasser last week, "Arab summits are finished forever." In turn, the usually unexcitable Feisal strongly defended "our right to defend ourselves," and at week's end went into a strategy session on Yemen with visiting King Hussein of Jordan, whose overthrow the Egyptians are known to favor...