Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history was a game with few players, and a single man could more readily change it all. The Greeks were losing the Trojan war until Achilles was coaxed from his tent. Horatius defended Rome's bridge with only two friends, and even as late as 1528, Pizarro could overthrow the mighty Inca civilization with only 167 men -less than the number commanded by Captain William Carpenter in that recent local battle in Viet Nam. Now with a cast of many thousands or millions, each leader heads only a segment, and decision is often a synthesis of the opinions...
...charge was Antonio de la Cuesta Valle, 38, the surest and shrewdest of the anti-Castro exiles now actively trying to overthrow Cuba's Maximum Leader. A sturdy 200-pounder, Cuesta had made ten previous trips to Cuba, taking in men and equipment and bringing out agents for debriefing. Last week, on his eleventh trip, Cuesta's luck ran out. No sooner had the raft put ashore than it was spotted by an antiaircraft battery. Two of the men were killed; the other two made it back to the main boat, but were apparently drowned when the boat...
...Those Coronations. As a vaguely "loyal" Briton, this bothers him. He publicly refuses to swear that he will not overthrow the Government of the United States by force and so sparks a bout of local McCarthyism (the late Senator's name still evokes crocodile fears in liberal British hearts), from which he emerges an embarrassed hero. Agog with admiration, a leggy, Kierkegaard-quoting girl bagpiper sweeps him off in her car for a premarital shakedown trip to Mexico, where she hopes to make a real swinger of him, but, depressed by his invincible fuddy-duddery, gives...
...REGIME. Seventeen years after its victory over Chiang Kaishek, the Communist regime is solidly entrenched on the mainland. The chance of an internal revolution that would overthrow the Chinese Communists, says Professor Robert Scalapino of the University of California, "seems remote, barring global war or some other major and unforeseeable crisis." Other China experts agree. The Communists have unified the provinces, centralized all authority and imposed a totalitarian administration that has steadily tightened its grip on all phases of government and life. Chairman Mao Tse-tung's chilling philosophy is that "all political power grows out of the barrel...
...special cell at Algiers' Maison Carrée, Berber Chieftain Hocine Aït Ahmed, 38, jailed since October 1964 for his campaign to overthrow ex-President Ahmed ben Bella, received special treatment. He got better rations than other prisoners, family and friends were allowed to drop in and chat, Wife Djainila could stay overnight, and negotiators from Strongman Colonel Houari Boumedienne stopped by to ask if Aït Ahmed wouldn't agree to support the new regime. All to no avail. One night last week, when Djamila, other relatives, and neighbors trooped homeward, the group also...