Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years since he seized power from Milton Obote, Uganda's mercurial President Idi Amin has accused his enemies of scheming at least a dozen times to overthrow him, and in response has ordered the execution of untold thousands of opponents. Last week three newly discovered "plotters" met with suspiciously accidental deaths. Two of the accused were high government officials: Internal Affairs Minister Charles Oboth-Ofumbi and Land and Water Resources Minister Erinayo Oryema. The third was one of the most highly esteemed churchmen in all of Africa, the Most Rev. Janani Luwum, 53, Anglican Archbishop of Uganda...
...their control of Rhodesia's economy. While the ideology of the Patriotic Front is a little unclear, it seems at the moment to be heading in a socialist direction. The Front has accepted support from the Soviet Union, but without some support the freedom fighters could not hope to overthrow the white regime. And the U.S. is not likely to permit the Front to nationalize American businesses in Zimbabwe without offering other alternatives. Vance's effort to repeal the Byrd amendment, thus assuring the black nationalists that the U.S. supports them in their negotiations and is friendly to their cause...
...Nationalist government on Taiwan, for example, the U.S. has frequently ordered the Seventh Fleet to steam up and down the Strait of Taiwan near the Chinese mainland and has alerted Air Force bombers based in Japan and Taiwan. In 1959 Cuban-backed insurgents who had landed in Panama to overthrow the government were intimidated into retreating when a U.S. destroyer and minesweeper and patrol planes appeared off the Panamanian coast...
Savimbi insists that he is not fighting to overthrow Neto's government. He says, "The real enemy is Cuban colonialism. The Cubans have taken over the country, but sooner or later they will suffer their own Viet Nam in Angola. We are perfectly willing to have a dialogue with the M.P.L.A. and form a national unity government of Angolans. But the Cubans must leave first. Then we will build true African socialism...
...Hammond, a member of the Cambridge Tenants' Organizing Committee urged an overthrow of "our capitalist system," while Louis Solano, a member of the Committee of Elders of Cambridge, told the tenants they should "put themselves in the landlords' shoes...