Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...west Algerian city of Tiaret. In the reviewing stand, dissident Vice Premier Ahmed ben Bella listened to the cheers of thousands of Moslem women chanting Yu! Yu! Yu!, then settled back to listen to a round of speeches from his top aides, attempting to justify his bid to overthrow the government of Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda. Just as one speaker assured the crowd that "Algeria is not the Congo," a messenger passed word to the assembled dignitaries that perhaps it really was. Some 320 miles to the east, at Constantine, Algerians had fired on Algerians; soldiers supporting Ben Bella wrested control...
...South Korea, Adnan Menderes in Turkey. Ne Win gave his army a free hand, and the troops opened fire, killing 16 students and wounding 42. A government spokesman explained that it had been necessary to dynamite the Student Union because "it was a haven for underground leaders, plotting the overthrow of the government," and Ne Win, in a nationwide broadcast, broadly hinted that the student leaders were Communists...
...Arequipa, and after instructing a crowd of 6,000 supporters to raise barricades around his campaign headquarters he demanded the appointment of a "tribunal of honor" to revise the election results- otherwise he would fight. "In case the government does not comply," he cried, "we will be compelled to overthrow it and punish it for its misdeeds...
...publisher peddles filth through the mails. In some public square, a Communist advocates violent overthrow of the U.S. Government. Elsewhere, federal employee blabs security secrets to anyone who will listen. Long before a man accused of murder comes to trial, a newspaper recommends hanging. What should be done about the pornographer, the Communist, the spiller of state secrets, the newspaper that beats justice...
...suppose that belief in freedom of trade...ever won its way among the majority of converts by the mere force of reasoning.... It is easy, then, to see how great in England was the part played by external circumstances--one might almost say by accidental conditions--in determining the overthrow of protection. A student should further remark that after free trade became an established principle of English policy, the majority of the English people accepted it mainly on authority.... What, however, weighed with most Englishmen, above every other consideration, was the harmony of the doctrine that commerce ought...