Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Votes & the Red Prince. If things are going well militarily in Laos, they are as hazy as ever politically. Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma must deal with a country half occupied by Communists, half hung up on the political bickering of the antiCommunists. Souvanna has survived three major attempts to overthrow his government in the past four months, and rightist bands loyal to exiled Deputy Premier Phoumi Nosavan-in Thailand since February's coup attempt-still prowl the countryside between Paksane and Thakhek...
regardless of topic-by "known Communists," persons who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment in loyalty investigations, and anyone who has advocated overthrow of the U.S. or North Carolina constitutions. It was passed at the end of the state legislature's 1963 session, shortly after University of North Carolina students and professors had taken part in civil rights marches in four North Carolina cities. University President William C. Friday learned that the bill had been introduced, found that it had cleared both houses in just 19 minutes while he was driving the 30 miles from Chapel Hill to the capitol...
...overthrow and subsequent murder of President Ngo Dinh Diem in November 1963 opened a political Pandora's box in Saigon. Since that angry day, the government has changed hands seven times; the war against the Communist Viet Cong has grown even tougher; the U.S. has been forced to escalate the conflict by bombing North Viet Nam and nearly doubling its own forces in the south. Most important, Diem's fall brought to an end nearly a decade of political stability in Viet Nam. Was Diem's downfall inevitable or even imperative, the product of immutable historical forces...
...story read like a satire on all tales of international intrigue - Scandinavian division. There were hidden arms, Arab plotters and midnight sleuthing. There was a strutting, self-styled Fuhrer with plans to overthrow the Swedish government and liquidate the country's top Jews. And, finally, there was a Jewish informant who had no trouble infiltrating the neo-Nazis, since he had a habit of making anti-Semitic remarks and parading about in Arab dress. Yet for all its zaniness, the expose that was splashed across the front page of the Swedish newspaper Expressen for two weeks became the talk...
...social justice and constitutionalism." Even Walter Lippmann, who had supported the U.S. intervention, hoped for the success of what he called the "legitimatist party-that of the Constitutionalists." But the fact is that Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, boss of the so-called Constitutionalists, had helped overthrow the constitutional President, Juan Bosch, in 1963. And the Bosch constitution that Caamaño was supposedly supporting forbids any military man -Caamaño, for example-to hold office...