Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro was the first to reach Havana" related Figueres, but several Latin American groups had cooperated to overthrow the Batista dictatorship. The Costa Rican had been an active leader among these and came to Havana in March 1959 as an honored guest of the new regime...
...motor-scooter factories. For a front man to give a semblance of legality, the military sounded out Senate President (pro tern) José Maria Guido, 52, a small-town lawyer and a member of Frondizi's Intransigent Radical Party, whose ambitions did not include the President's overthrow. Guido said no. Not until Frondizi phoned just before leaving for his prison island and freed him to take the presidency to avoid civil war did Guido agree...
False Prosperity. Underlying all politics in Argentina is the memory of Juan Per&243;n and of the restless underclasses who followed him faithfully for ten years. Until his overthrow in 1955, Per&243;n masked his dictatorial misrule by spreading Argentina's wealth before the public...
...Justifying emergency rule when subversion threatens to overthrow a regime. A similar clause was used by Jawaharlal Nehru to impose President's Rule from Delhi on the state of Kerala after it voted Communist in 1957. - And her body, well embalmed, was kept in a hushed room in the C.G.T. Building. After Per&243;n fell, it disappeared. *First stop on a long trail leading to Madrid. Other stops: Paraguay, Panama, followed by residences in lands then ruled by fellow dictators -Perez Jimenez' Venezuela, Trujillo's Dominican Republic, Franco's Spain...
...consider subversion the legitimate province of the satirist. If he's not in the business to overthrow one institution or another; if he's only in the business to poke irreverent but gentle fun, to amuse without biting, to comment without caring then, in my terms, he may be a lampoonist or a parodist or a light humorist, but he's not a satirist. A humorist will hold up a mirror, look at its reflection chuckle warmly and say "Well it's silly but its not such a bad reflection after all"; a satirist will have a darker view. That...