Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pattern: to destroy U.S. prestige around the globe by stirring doubt and divisions within the U.S., by straining the bonds between the U.S. and its allies, and by making a grandstand play to public opinion in the vast areas of Latin America, Asia and Africa and thus encourage the overthrow of pro-Western political leaders...
Last month hundreds of hapless Guineans were arrested on suspicion of plotting the overthrow of the government on behalf of "French colonialism and its black lackeys." They were an unlikely bunch of plotters: petty crooks caught black-marketing, government officials charged with smuggling trunkloads of the new currency over the border, and young intellectuals led by brilliant, French-educated Ibrahim Diallo, a former civil servant who had asked Touré's permission to form an opposition party...
...seems on the point of waking, e.g., in 1958, when General Humberto Delgado (now in exile in Brazil) broke all the rules by campaigning seriously for the presidency. Last year Portugal twitched again when the government announced that it had smashed a military plot to overthrow aging Dr. Salazar. Among those arrested: handsome Captain José de Almeida Santos, 39. a cavalry officer with a record of distinguished service in the Portuguese colonies of Goa and Mozambique...
...Often there is no room at first for a 'loyal opposition,' for its sole aim after independence could only be overthrow of the independence movement itself," says Tanganyika's Nyerere. Mboya, too, is a professed democrat, but he does not guarantee that pure Western-style freedom can be achieved. "I am flattered by those who demand perfection from us," he says. "The paraphernalia of Western democracy are not necessarily best suited for Africa . . . New nations are bound to experiment with the institutions they inherit...
...trial-and-error education of a Latin American rebel. He is an intellectual who, for a short time during the '30s, called himself a Communist. He is an old revolutionary who on one occasion did not boggle at collaborating with an ambitious dictator-to-be to overthrow constituted authority. That venture gave him an intoxicating taste of power, but he was overthrown and wandered through years of exile, unsure whether he would ever get a second chance. Above all, he is a master politician who has learned about his country and its people by tramping dusty back-lands roads...