Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil order and defense, you have a way of controlling him, for rifies need ammunition that fits, and equipment needs spare parts. The pattern of our previous policy as it begins to emerge rather suggests that elements in the previous administration had determined to isolate and if possible overthrow Castro some time before he finally isolated himself from us. If as reported our C.I.A. threw its main support to conservative elements among the refugees, this would surely reinforce these tendencies and make matters still worse. Offered a choice between Batista and Castro's proletarian brand of revolution, it is possible...
This morning the news broadcasts announced, perhaps prematurely, the liquidation of the attempt to overthrow Castro. I have tapped out these rough notes in an attempt to make clear to myself what these events mean. If they help others in a similar attempt, they will have served their purpose...
...Communist-supplied base 90 miles from U.S. shores, was obviously going to come in for a storm of leftist agitation and a good deal of Latin American criticism, if its part in the exiles' activities became too obvious. The U.S. is heavily pledged (Bogota, 1948) not to help overthrow any hemisphere regime. Furthermore, even Cubans despairing of Castro's Communist ties might be patriotically moved to side with Castro if the invaders seemed mere U.S. mercenaries. The U.S. position is that of coach and well-wisher cheering from the sidelines but forbidden on the playing field...
...SECRET SPEECH, by John Robinson Beal (138 pp.; Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.50), is a satiric political fantasy that looks ahead to Khrushchev's overthrow, as explained by his imaginary successor, Comrade Dmitri Pushkov. (Khrushchev's fate is only hinted at: he becomes manager of the State Circus Trust.) Calmly, point by point-in a parody of Khrushchev's own speech in 1956 enumerating Stalin's errors-Pushkov proves to a Communist Party Congress that the man who once had only to pound on a U.N. desk with his shoe to frighten the world has really been...
...taste for women, at least five known diseases including syphilis, and an incredible durability. At 70, he has survived innumerable attempts on his life by his Yemeni tribal enemies, makes it a rule to behead any would-be assassin he can catch. When his own brother tried to overthrow him in 1955, the Imam did not let family feelings interfere with justice, ordered his execution...