Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regime and its methods was almost unanimous. It created the subjective preconditions for even higher levels of anti-fascist activity. It reaffirmed the belief of the Greeks that a new start had to be made in the political life of the country. Its foundation would have to be the overthrow of the junta and the eradication of all those political structures, inherited from the U.S.-dominated post-Civil War period in Greece, that made a mockery of democracy and that culminated in this terrorist regime. Above all it expressed the demand for an end to foreign tutelage in general...
...were arrested under South Africa's Terrorism Act for crimes ranging from allegedly giving $11.50 to an intermediary--who transferred the funds to persons who wanted to overthrow the South African government--to giving a Land Rover to another such intermediary...
...regard their homelands with much the same fervor that American Jews feel for Israel. While people now living in Eastern Europe have generally made their accommodation with the regimes, the immigrants-and many first-and second-generation Americans - remain unalterably opposed to Communism and await, however forlornly, its overthrow...
...granting of independence to Mozambique and Angola ? something the old regime vowed would never happen. Before 1975, Mozambique and Angola were Portuguese colonies that served as bulwarks against the southward march of African nationalism; after 1975, their Marxist governments became directly involved in the black struggle to overthrow the remaining white minority regimes. In time, Mozambique cut Rhodesia off from its best rail routes to the sea, forcing it to rely exclusively on South Africa for its trade ? and arms. Mozambique also granted sanctuary to more and more Rhodesian guerrillas...
...negotiation, while the situation within South Africa is considerably less hopeful for the moment. And despite the conservative expectations of Kissinger and Vorster's strategy, the dismantling of white minority regimes on its borders cannot help but encourage renewed struggle on the part of those on whom the overthrow of apartheid must ultimately depend--the blacks and coloreds of South Africa, who have already shown tremendous courage in resisting the humiliations of a brutal and racist police state...