Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been hinting at it ever since Khrushchev left him high and dry during the October missile crisis. Yet while he talks peace, and while the joint Russian-Cuban communique in Moscow flatly regarded "any export of revolution as contradicting Marxism-Leninism," Castro cynically continues to work for the violent overthrow of governments in Latin America. The report last week of an Organization of American States committee on Communist subversion left no question about it. "The emphasis that the Castro regime puts on the use of violence to overthrow constituted governments," said the report, "together with the recent outbreaks of terror...
Duvalier's popularity constitutes a serious obstacle to American and OAS attempts to remove him from office. His overthrow would make him appear as a martyr in the fight against white imperialism, and his popularity among the 90 per cent Negro population would increase. Martyring Duvalier would at once heighten Haitian hostility to the United States and at the same time hinder, if not actually cripple, any attempts at internal reform...
...Hitler, she says, but none of them did. Arendt claims (in the face of documented evidence to the contrary - by Allen Dulles and Hans Rothfels, among others) that a German underground did not develop until the war went against Germany. She fails to mention a well-organized plot to overthrow Hitler in 1938, which was sabotaged by Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler at Munich. She goes so far as to charge the Resistance leaders with sharing Hitler's aims, since they referred to him as a "swindler" and a "madman," but never as a "murderer." This seems...
...trimmed long red robes, and sat listening with calm dignity. Moreover, Dia was not even charged with "plotting," only with the more vague "acting against the internal security of the state." Taking the floor in his defense, Dia argued that he was not guilty. When he sent gendarmes to overthrow President Leopold Senghor and arrest pro-Senghor Deputies, Dia said, he was only trying to head off a plot against himself that stemmed from his efforts to crack Senegal's peanut monopolists. Cried Dia: "I wanted a constitutional solution, they [Senghor's men] wanted a political...
Folkways, if it can clear up some legal problems, plans to release an LP featuring Brecht's testimony in Washington. During the investigation of the "Hollywood Ten," Brecht admitted to seeking the violent overthrow of the Government. The Committee, which seemed to forget he was referring to the Hitler government, was considerably disconcerted...