Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politely, and the hundreds of straw-hat peasants trucked into the capital stood passively. The country's new military strongman was addressing them. On a balcony of the avocado green national palace, Army Colonel Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 54, explained what was in store for the country following his overthrow of President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes. He began by proclaiming Decree Law No. 1: subject-labor reform. Peralta promised equal pay for both Indians and whites, an eight-hour day and a 48-hour week, paid vacations, maternity leave, the right of farm labor to organize unions, "encouragement" of low-cost...
...signed confession, Quinim's assassin, a lance corporal named Chy Kong, charged Quinim with trying to overthrow the government and bribing neutralist officers to defect to the Pathet Lao forces encamped in the Plaine des Jarres, where at week's end fighting broke out that caused 20 casualties. Asked if he agreed that Quinim had been proCommunist, Premier Souvanna Phouma replied simply: "He is dead. Peace to his soul...
Last week the general decided to turn off the heat. Reneging on his promise to restore civilian rule, Park slapped a ban on all political parties, prohibited "political agitation" in the press, jailed 30 plotters-including some former junta members-accused of trying to overthrow his regime. Ignoring the resignation of his Cabinet, Park suspended next May's scheduled elections, announced that the populace instead would vote in a new referendum designed to keep him in absolute power for another four years...
Nearly a year after his overthrow, Frondizi, noticeably heavier and his hair gone white, was still technically under arrest. But times-and his fortunes-have changed. Frondizi's first stop was a comfortable, Swiss-style chalet overlooking a lake 13 miles outside of Bariloche. But when he complained that it was too remote from his friends, the government obligingly moved him to a hotel nearer town. Frondizi's visitors, so tightly limited by the military when he was on Martin Garcia, will be limited only by Frondizi's wishes and Bariloche's remote ness from...
...replying, "We do not advocate an invasion or an occupation," said he in a letter that ran in the Washington Post two days after Lippmann's column appeared. What he wanted all along, said Pulliam, was "a forceful American policy, aimed at Castro's isolation and eventual overthrow" by partial blockade or quarantine. "The day President Kennedy proclaimed the American quarantine last October, we wrote that the Russians would accept it, while a lot of 'liberal' commentators, including Mr. Lippmann, expected the Russians to 'challenge' the American Navy or to start a nuclear...