Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nigeria and flown to Accra on a Ghana air force plane, he was on his way to prison-and almost surely to death. The cage in which he rode had been especially designed and constructed to contain a greater prize: the erstwhile Ghanaian ruler, Kwame Nkrumah, who before his overthrow a year ago, called himself "the Christ of our day" and "the Conqueror of imperialism...
...fact, that it is causing mounting concern among the countries around the Asian periphery. Communist North Korea had been carefully suppressing the news from China, lest its own youth catch the Red Guard fever. But last week it lashed out against Red Guard posters that reported a plot to overthrow the North Korean government. Cried Pyongyang: "An intolerable slander." Japan is disillusioned about its recent new moves toward Red China and fretful about its carefully cultivated and growing trade with the Chinese. Pakistan, which has beea edging toward friendship with Peking, now finds itself peering un- comfortably into an abyss...
...returned to their homelands. The last Soviet Friendship Delegation to China, in November, was an exercise in hostility rather than hospitality. Russian and East European journalists have been roughed up with such monotonous regularity in China that they now "just stay indoors." Both sides have made appeals for the overthrow of the other's regime. Neither side is above pettiness. The Russians have accused Mao of being a lousy, unreadable poet; they sometimes pull out the microphone plugs when Chinese are speaking at international meetings and house the Chinese delegations in old and elevatorless hotels. Anti-China Courses...
...earlier conclusion rested and that the law is unconstitutionally vague. Pursuing the first point for the majority, Justice William Brennan noted that, though New York recently abolished the oath requirement of the Feinberg Law, it still bars from public-school employment members of any organization that advocates the violent overthrow of the Government. Even if the employee does not share the advocacy, he must still be fired under Feinberg, said Brennan, and that is "guilt by association...
Syrian-based "Palestine Liberation Army" infiltrated Jordan to join the struggle to overthrow King Hussein; other terrorists were attempting similar moves against Saudi Arabia's King Feisal. With the tacit approval of Damascus, a school for saboteurs was in full swing in the arid hills above the Sea of Galilee. Syria's leaders were even attempting to topple the neighboring socialist regime of Iraq, whose petroleum riches Syria would like to turn over to "the Arab masses...