Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from stranding itself in the South Vietnamese swamps because of policy inertia. When the approved American line was to support Diem regardless of his liabilities because Washington was concerned with defeating the Vietcong, this support was justified by two main points in favor of Diem: (1) Any attempt to overthrow him would disrupt the war effort and (2) no suitable substitutes existed...
...military camp outside Leopoldville, a battalion of paratroopers watched glumly as two of their lieutenants and 18 men were lined up and stripped naked. It was a cashiering, Congo-style. According to their superiors, the punished men had accepted bribes in a plot to overthrow the government. This plot failed, but there are plenty of others going. Again the Congo is rumbling, and Premier Cyrille Adoula is feeling the ground shake under...
Government authorities recently reported a training camp for 600 guerrillas, probably Communist-run, in the forests of Kwilu province 300 miles east of Leopoldville. The Russian embassy, closed after Lumumba's overthrow in 1960 but reopened a year ago, also got busy again. In September the situation began to worry the band of anti-Communist strongmen, known as the "Binza Group,"* who have kept Adoula in power. Fed up with the do-nothing Parliament (which once had to be locked in by U.N. troops in order to elect a government), the Binza boys pressured President Joseph Kasavubu into suspending...
...After the Leopoldville suburb where in 1960 they plotted the overthrow of Lumumba...
While wandering in the secluded garden of his Palermo estate, Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian prince, finds the corpse of a royalist soldier. It is 1860, Garibaldi and his redshirts have landed in Sicily on their way to overthrow the Bourbon monarchy in Naples, and the dead sharpshooter signals the death of a way of life. In his elegiac novel, The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa chronicles this transformation. But The Leopard is more than a retelling of aristocratic decline. It is also a voyage through the consciousness of Don Fabrizio, who struggles to make sense of the paradox presented...