Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thumbprint is somewhere in the overthrow of Guatemala's Jacobo Arbenz, an open Communist sympathizer and another destabilizing force in the fragile years after World...
...Palestinians. Of the six major organizations within the P.L.O., Habash's PFLP is the most likely to spearhead a resurgence of terrorism if Palestinians are not suitably represented at a Geneva peace conference. The PFLP is radically Marxist in ideology and seeks to overthrow conservative Arab regimes. Active membership: about 3,500 guerrillas. Terrorist exploits: skyjackings, bombings, an occasional tour de force such as the capture of more than 80 people who were held hostage in their Amman, Jordan, hotel rooms for two days in 1970 to dramatize the Palestinian plight...
...P.L.O. is an example of Arab democracy gone wild. Its largest member organization, Arafat's Al Fatah, is frequently at odds with George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, whose Marxist cadre seeks to overthrow not only Israel but also conservative Arab governments like Saudi Arabia-Arafat's bankroller. Both Fatah and Habash's group have had bitter quarrels with four smaller but vociferous members of the P.L.O.-the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front-General Command (now split into pro-Iraq-Libya and pro-Syria factions...
...been participating in was just that--a movement to end the American military presence in Indo-China. Many tried to maintain the energy of the movement, but without a concrete focus the previously united activists drifted away into their own areas of interest. Even the U.S. complicity in the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Chile was unable to revive the old coalition...
...Long live the revolution! Power to the people!" I'm not pinning this [directly] on Biko, but this pamphlet is heavy meat. I cannot allow the black people to be intimidated by this sort of activism, just as I am not going to allow them to try and overthrow our state...