Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state correctly: "U.S. forces landed there in 1898 to help the Cubans overthrow their Spanish rulers, and stayed for good." But then you say: "The U.S. controls Guantanamo Bay ... under a perpetual lease negotiated with the Republic of Cuba in 1903." No one, most Americans will agree, "negotiates" perpetual leases allowing foreign military bases on lome territory. Cubans were robbed of their revolution and denied self-determination, sadly, by the largest "democracy" at the time...
...threat of another superpower confrontation in Africa. Carter instead bought the argument of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Defense Secretary Harold Brown that the U.S. could not afford the downfall of Hassan, a prominent friend in the Third World. An unspoken but very real consideration: coming after the overthrow of U.S.-supported autocrats in Iran and Nicaragua, the loss of Hassan would be a major embarrassment to the President's re-election campaign...
...weeks ago the conspirators informed the U.S. embassy in San Salvador that they were ready to stage Romero's overthrow. Last Monday their forces moved swiftly through the capital city, carrying out the plotters' plan to "behead the army" by arresting the general staff and putting 85% of the senior officers on the retirement list. Through an American diplomat, they informed Romero that he had until 3 p.m. to get out of the country. With that, the President (whose brother Jose Javier was gunned down by leftists five weeks ago) boarded a plane and fled to Guatemala...
...politicians no longer bought this Eichmannesque reasoning, and went after Helms in characteristically timid fashion. Typically, writes Powers, "Helms was not charged with what he did, but more narrowly for having lied about it." Asked by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1973 whether the CIA had tried to overthrow the government of Chile or passed money to Salvador Allende's opponents, Helms replied, simply, "No sir." Perjury...
...fictitious missing daughter who has supposedly disappeared in the moil of a fanatical religious commune. Its remaining inhabitants, when he finds them, are no Moonies. Armed to the bicuspids and as pious as piranhas, the communards turn out to be dedicated members of an international conspiracy to overthrow the capitalist-imperialist world...