Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group plans to campaign against U.S. investment in Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe and to boycott and fight for the overthrow of minority white regimes in these countries...
...Rights in Geneva, Brady Tyson, deputy chief of the U.S. delegation, publicly apologized for what he described as "the role some Government officials, agencies and private groups played in the subversion of the democratically elected Chilean government." Though Carter himself condemned the U.S. during the campaign for helping to overthrow "an elected government," he reprimanded Tyson for making an "inappropriate" remark...
...Hall of the People. The leaders' search for a haven against Lin Piao's conspiracy to overthrow Chairman Mao had not been revealed to outsiders before this moment, she added...
...white regimes in Salisbury and Pretoria. But practically, he understands the strong forces pushing the area toward a bloodbath. He knows that many of the militant black nationalists in Zimbabwe and their supporters in the surrounding front-line states are convinced that violence is the only way to overthrow colonialism and avoid big business manipulation. Indeed, the intransigence of leaders like Ian Smith in Zimbabwe and John Vorster in South Africa have lent their argument increasing credence. Young himself says he is well aware of Smith's current inhuman and self-serving strategy: draw the Soviets and Cubans into battle...
...Chile. Church sources say that more than 1,000 political prisoners have been killed by the harsh rightist regime of General Augusto Pinochet since the 1973 overthrow of Marxist President Salvador Allende. Thousands more are still in jail. A strict curfew is in effect, critical foreign journalists are regularly barred from the country, and its own press is tightly muzzled...