Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Central Intelligence Agency and other American organizations urged Buddhist leaders to overthrow the government last August; 2) the Vietnamese people had lost confidence in the U.S.; and 3) the war with the Viet Cong would end more quickly if the U.S. sent its advisers home but continued to send cash and arms...
...Communist Goals: "Their aim is to overthrow the way of life free men have chosen for themselves and substitute their own. Their tactics are to undermine, harry and probe weaknesses everywhere, backing up if necessary their probes with force. Today it is the Congo, Laos, Tibet and Cuba. Tomorrow it will be another selection. That is what Mr. Khrushchev calls peaceful coexistence. There is very little peaceful about it except that, with luck, the guns don't fire...
...significance of the overthrow of parity conservation does not require considerable grounding in physics or mathematics to appreciate. I disagree with Mr. Crichton's conclusions concerning the place of parity at the Cambridge High Tables. (CRIMSON Bookshelf, Thursday...
...sense the fault is with scientists who in explaining non-conservation of parity are preoccupied with its sophisticated ramifications. These are undeniably important to other scientists. This preoccupation, however, does cause difficulties in communication with non-scientists and obscures the broader significance of the overthrow of a scientific law. Such an overthrow is most significant to the non-scientist as a lesson in the psychology of science, or more broadly, in the psychology of scholarly inquiry. Joel Tenenbaum...
Even Diem's severest critics in Saigon concede that there was no serious religious persecution until the present troubles began, and that the Buddhist movement has become a political force dedicated to Diem's overthrow. His regime meanwhile freed 125 Buddhists and sympathizers in Hue who were jailed after last August's riots; how many others are still being held is not known...