Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longest and costliest trial in South African history by finding all 28 defendants innocent. In a unanimous decision, the judges declared: "On the evidence presented . . . it is impossible for this court to come to the conclusion that the African National Congress had acquired or adopted a policy to overthrow the state by violence." Furthermore, there was "no evidence of Communistic infiltration" into the congress...
...Prince Souphanouvong, dazzled by his exposure to French socialism, turned left. He moved to Hanoi, married a Vietnamese girl, began consorting with the Viet Minh revolutionists, who were plotting the overthrow of Indo-China's French masters. In 1949, he set off on a 40-day trek through the northern jungles to a rendezvous with the brilliant Viet Minh ex-schoolteacher and field commander, General Vo Nguyen Giap. Over a bottle of warm champagne, which Giap bragged had been "taken from the body of a dead Frenchman," Giap explained how guerrilla warfare worked...
...handful of avowedly anti-Castro governments such as Guatemala and Nicaragua would welcome a successful invasion of Cuba and would not mind if the U.S. overtly supported it. A few other governments, including Venezuela and Colombia, might welcome an attempt to overthrow Castro so long as U.S. support was sufficiently well camouflaged to make official denials reasonably credible...
...said he would ask Congress to amend and expand the NDEA. The target of many universities has been section 1001 (f), which requires the taking of a loyalty oath and the filing of an affidavit disclaiming membership in or support of "any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government by force or violence or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods...
...analysis may be all very well, but what good does it do us to know that the best proposals Dr. Kissinger can think up are too one-sided for the Russians to accept? If the overthrow of East Germany is impossible without a war, how can an arms control plan based on a united and pro-Western make any sense at all? Kissinger does not rule out a neutralized Germany, but his definition of acceptability is tantamount to the same un- Soviet Society," so often invoked as the inevitable outcome of history and the prelude to peace. Such a transformation...