Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though covert operations involving intervention in the internal affairs of other countries are being reduced, some have been successful. The CIA-backed overthrow of Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 and of Guatemala's President Jacobo Arbenz the following year headed off threats of Communist takeovers and stabilized conditions to the benefit of the Western world. Other operations were more dubious. In the Dominican Republic, Dictator Rafael Trujillo was assassinated in 1961 by rebels supplied with guns by CIA agents. The ensuing chaos forced President Johnson to send in the Marines four years later. Notes New York University...
Although Lobo maintained that violence was sometimes necessary to overthrow an exploitative government, he described the horrors of war to an attentive audience...
Other provisions of the bill include the imposition of a maximum fine of $100 for possession of 150 grams or less of marijuana, as well as the repeal of the 1940 Smith Act, which prohibits advocating the overthrow of the government...
...taken the position that the election results constitute a vote of confidence in his government, and he has used the results to justify his decision not to hold new elections for at least eight more years. In so doing, Pinochet has played out a grim encore to his brutal overthrow of the Allende government only four years...
...year-old La Prensa, who became an international symbol of a free press by defying Dictator Juan Perón; of cancer; in Buenos Aires. Forced into exile when Perón took over his paper in 1951, Gainza Paz resumed control in 1956 after the dictator's overthrow. Almost 20 years later La Prensa broke a story about the alleged misuse of a $700,000 check that contributed to the downfall of Perón's successor, his widow Isabel...