Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Added to these unhappy statistics is a growing political instability. The real significance of the January 30 coup is not that it dashed the hopes nurtured by the overthrow of Diem--these hopes had already disappeared--but that it points the way to more coups and more unrest. It would be ridiculous to place any great hopes in General Kanh as a Vietnamese messiah, when the success of any government appears to rest on whose troops are in Saigon at a given moment...
Quijano rejected both coexistence and an invasion by U.S. troops as possible solutions to the Cuban problem. He conceded, however, that Castro would be "very difficult to overthrow" at the present time...
...subsequent reshuffle of commands, Minh irked his seasoned fellow general by assigning Khanh to the 1st Corps in the North, one area that the Diem regime had pretty well cleared of Viet Cong guerrillas. However, Khanh firmly denied that it was personal resentment or ambition that prompted him to overthrow Minh. His sole aim, he insisted, was to forestall a takeover by "neutralist" agents who, said he, had been "blatantly" slipped into South Viet Nam for the purpose by France's Charles de Gaulle. Khanh charged, moreover, that the four generals arrested with Minh included a clique within...
...Haiti's murderous Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier survived efforts, applauded by the U.S., to overthrow him last spring, looked on with stony satisfaction last month when the U.S. quietly resumed full diplomatic relations. His country is poverty-stricken and in a state of chaos...
...settlers, it has been largely spared the racial bitterness that has riven Kenya. However, in the wake of the uprising that came close to toppling his friend Julius Nyerere in neighboring Tanganyika, the usually affable Kaunda warned grimly last week: "We shall crush ruthlessly any attempt to overthrow this government by unconstitutional means...