Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Allied intervention was also a mistake, the result of great confusion in the minds of Western statesmen as to the situation in Russia and as to their own aims. It could never have accomplished its purpose--the overthrow of the Bolsheviks--and it served only to help the Soviet Government rally the forces of nationalism. The Allies also passed up a number of opportunities to retire gracefully from the intervention, thus compounding the blunder...
...members of the junta. And although the junta ostensibly ignores these signs, indications are that privately it is deeply worried. Thousands of ex-Democrats have been clapped in jail on the strength of mere denunciations, and only last week 161 were rounded up in an alleged plot to overthrow the Gursel government...
...Canets worked actively to overthrow Batista from 1954 on, and served under Castro until October, 1940. At that time, according to Mrs. Canet, they left Cuba with their two children rather than continue alongside Communists in the government...
...ambition to overthrow the free governments of the Americas and to replace them by regimes modeled in his own tyrannical image. Dr. Castro stands today an outlaw in the hemisphere...
...known reformer who proposed, in effect, a continuing revolution in Cuba, without Castro or Communism. There was a feeling that disillusionment with Castro had come a little late for Ray and many of his followers. The CIA decided to stick with Varona and his Frente as the instrument to overthrow Castro, and assigned an agent named Frank Bender to the task...