Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...independence movement. India clapped Sheik Abdullah into jail in 1953 and introduced a series of repressive measures to halt other nationalist or pro-Pakistan movements. Except for three months in 1958, Sheik Abdullah has languished in prison ever since, was last week on trial on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the government...
Jails were filled to overflowing with political enemies when Marcos Pérez Jiménez was boss in Venezuela. Last week the chubby little (5 ft. 4 in.) dictator, who has been living a life of ease in Miami Beach since his overthrow in 1958, got a faint idea of how it feels to be on the inside looking out. He was behind bars in Cell No. 505 in Miami's Dade County jail, though Florida justice does not include the exercises in torture that Jiménez' prisons...
...professor characterized the Smith Act as being "somewhat better" than the Subversive Activities Control Act. In his opinion, however, "All you need is a statute making it a crime to overthrow the government. We've had that since the Civil...
...colleges to withdraw from the program in 1959 in protest of a recently repealed provision requiring an applicant to file an affidavit that "he does not believe in, he is not a member of, and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government...
...private. Chinese Reds were even rougher. Communist editors in Hong Kong last week sought out Western newsmen for the first time in years specifically to denounce Khrushchev by name. They revived earlier charges that he had tried to overthrow the Peking regime by destroying blueprints for Chinese economic projects, and complained that Stalin's only mistake was "not killing Khrushchev in the purges." Khrushchev, went the line, is "an amateur Marxist who is betraying the cause with his philosophy of abundance." and is "as jealous of China's growing strength as only a bourgeois woman could...