Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long been imminent. For centuries, the Tutsi held the Hutu in a type of feudal boundage. The Belgians allowed Tutsi domination to continue when they took over Ruanda-Urundi (now divided into Rwanda and the Kingdom of Burundi) after World War I. Only in 1959 did the Hutu overthrow the Tutsi's jealously guarded hegemony...
...report, the directions in which we point, as well as by outright forecast. Everyone on our staff recalls his own favorite prediction, be it the precise forecast of the end of the American retreat in Korea, or Ike's nomination in 1952, or the uneasy suggestion that the overthrow of Diem's regime in South Viet Nam would only lead to other coups...
...investigating committee last week found Cuba guilty of attempting "to overthrow the democratic government of Venezuela through terrorism, sabotage, assault and guerrilla warfare." Venezuela's documented evidence included a three-ton cache of smuggled Cuban arms and a fantastic battle plan for the capture of Caracas by Castro-directed local Communists. Later, Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt summoned the ambassadors of England, Spain and France and warned them to choose between trade with Cuba-about $100 million as presently proposed-and trade with Venezuela, worth some $400 million annually. Betancourt also threatened to expropriate Venezuela's Shell...
Communists in the United States do not want the violent overthrow of the government, said Dan Rubin, editor of Communist Viewpoint, last night. He said that they seek to establish "socialism" peacefully...
Shotgun Semester. U.S. officials hastily huddled with Junta Boss General Nguyen Khanh, who had worries of his own; a flurry of rumors suggested that army rivals were plotting to overthrow his regime. Saigon police began a district-by-district sweep through the capital, rounded up more than 100 suspected Viet Cong collaborators. But it was doubtful that the Saigon government, its once efficient security police debilitated by endless reorganization, could guarantee the protection of Americans should the Viet Cong continue the terrorist attacks. As a result, U.S. forces for the first time had to take up direct police functions...