Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Comparing these two films intelligently seems virtually impossible. Although both portray Chile under Allende's Popular Unity government and the eventual overthrow of that regime, Avenue of the Americas takes a documentary approach, focusing on the life of the Chileans in the years before the coup, and on American involvement in the coup. It's Raining in Santiago fictionalizes the coup itself, in the tradition of Costa Gavras' Z. Together, the two films recreate the tragedy of Allende's Chile. Although a majority of the workers and peasants supported his government and its reforms, although the country's productivity increased...
...populist.'' In its Southern origins, populism struck roots in the best democratic tradition. Carter had legitimate claims in blood and heritage to that tradition. I would like to believe he will stick to it. If he does, the populist dogma -illustrated by automatic voter registration and overthrow of the Electoral College-may well be put to unprecedented tests...
...allies, was that the Katangese invaders had obviously been trained and armed by the Angolans and their guests, the Cubans, with the support of the Soviet Union. At little cost or risk to themselves, the Cubans and the Soviets seemed to be using the Katangese rebels to try to overthrow Mobutu, an unpopular pro-Western leader who has at least managed to hold his sprawling, tribally divided nation together for nine years...
...officials claimed that the invaders were fighting under new bosses-leftist Portuguese mercenaries-and were armed with Soviet-made mortars and missiles. Meanwhile, the pro-Moscow National Liberation Front of the Congo, a Paris-based exile group, took responsibility for the invasion. Its aim, F.N.L.C. spokesmen said, was to overthrow Mobutu's "neocolonialist tyranny...
...repeals the Smith Act (against advocating overthrow of the Government); the McCarran Act (requiring registration of "Communist front" organizations); and the Logan Act (forbidding any citizen to negotiate with a foreign government). The three measures have been spottily enforced in recent years...