Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exploit Communist rifts, the West is in danger of deluding itself on this issue, for "soft" and "hard" are relative. While Khrushchev may seem soft to Peking, he appears exceedingly hard elsewhere. These terms are, ultimately, only labels for different strategies aimed at the same end: the overthrow of capitalism, the triumph of Communism. That is a simple but important fact that the West cannot disregard without peril, in dealing with the men who rule one-third of the earth's people...
...have never," Hindus writes, "encountered any young Soviet citizens, workers or intellectuals, who question collective ownership of the 'means of production.' They accept the Soviet economy without reservations, and I am certain they would battle against any movement to overthrow it. They know nothing else, and to them the term 'capitalism' spells depravity and damnation." They fight only to buy more books, to write about day to day problems rather than about the romance of building Socialism, and to wear lipstick and play jazz...
...Peking, the Reds have previously soft-pedaled the Double Ten celebration, possibly because of its accent on a spontaneous explosion of oppressed people. Last week, speaking to an audience of 10,000, Premier Chou En-lai belittled the overthrow of the Manchus as "an old-fashioned democratic revolution led by the Chinese bourgeoisie...
Cambridge Young Democrats have been campaigning actively to overthrow PR in the popular referendum which will accompany the election. Claiming that the system is unfair, and much too involved, they are attempting to undo a procedure which voters have ratified in increasing majorities in three past referenda exactly resembling this year...
...thrill came one February night four years ago in Cuba's Oriente province. Led there by intermediaries. Matthews sat for three 'hours with a bearded and gabby young guerrilla leader named Fidel Castro, puffing Havana cigars and discussing, in whispers, Castro's plans to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. The rendezvous with Castro did indeed produce an impressive scoop. Until Matthews' three-part series appeared in the Times, much of the world had been led to believe Castro dead, his rebel movement aborted. In Matthews' glowing, uncritical account. Castro came back to life looking...