Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cuban anti-Communists dedicated to the overthrow of Fidel Castro face a task that, militarily, grows tougher by the day. Last week a newly escaped Cuban army officer put it bluntly: "There must be a modern force of at least 6,000 men, well-trained in combined operations on land, sea and air, or else it will be thrown back into the sea." Starting in Castro's first week in power, 21 months of frantic arms buying has funneled enough military hardware into Cuba to equip no fewer than nine light divisions of 7,500 men each, give Cuba...
...allies in NATO conceived this worrisome ghoul. They are understandably distressed at Nixon's suggestion that Quemoy and Matsu should be defended under any and all circumstances and at Kennedy's call for assistance to overthrow Premier Castro's government. Their idea has been that such matters are at the discretion of the President and of the State Department. Mere candidates in their view should ignore their conventions' proclamations that foreign policy is the most important issue in the campaign. Our allies would prefer, according to Mr. Reston in yesterday's New York Times, that Kennedy and Nixon refrain from...
...public opinion could be heard anew on the treaty. In doing so, they had the almost unanimous support of the major newspapers. It was a selfconscious movement to restore faith in parliamentarianism. The government strongly defended its stand, and claimed that it, too, was holding parliamentarianism against attempts to overthrow it violently...
...reach of Russian brainwashing. They had "sought citizenship in the Soviet Union." said the two, because they had learned that the U.S. lies, because its secret agents spy on both hostile and friendly powers, because its international operatives manipulate money and military supplies in an effort to overthrow unfriendly governments...
Aglow with success, the erratic Premier saved his shocker until the end. "The United Nations has plotted with Kasavubu to overthrow my government and failed," he shouted. "We must demand the immediate withdrawal of all United Nations troops from the Congo...