Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THESE TRAGIC EVENTS UNAVOIDABLY raise the question of American responsibility, not only for the violent overthrow of the democratically elected Allende government in 1973 at the hands of the Chilean armed forces, but also for the consolidation and expansion of DINA, whose operations now appear to extend far beyond the borders of Chile. In view of the bloody murder of Orlando Letelier and Ronnie Karpen Moffitt, it is imperative and legitimate that the U.S. government totally sever all diplomatic and political relations with the Chilean junta; stop all U.S., World Bank and all other international forms...
...EDUCATION. It is reported that penicillin was invented by a laundryman in a dyer's shop. Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity, though he began as a newspaper boy. What learning did Jesus have? . . . It is always those with less learning who overthrow those with more learning...
...Giscard-Barre team will get their measures past the National Assembly, the President thinks he has a solution: the Gaullists have no choice but to back him. So far, the party's reaction has been encouraging. But the fact remains that the new government is subject to overthrow from either right or left-a situation the Fifth Republic was specifically designed to prevent...
...Stein's libretto is her customary trenchant blend of logic with nonsense, historical characters like Lillian Russell (sung by Karen Beck) with imaginary figures like the mobile angel (Ashley Putnam). Snippets of political speeches are intercut with Stein's excursions into absurdities. "I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking," Susan B. accuses. "Daniel Webster needs an artichoke," reports the angel, scooting by on her skates...
...three years since the overthrow of the Marxist Allende government, according to respected church sources, an estimated 1,000 Chileans have been tortured to death by the ruthlessly efficient secret police, the DINA. In one wave of arrests 18 months ago 2,000 people were brought in; 370 have never been seen again. These gruesome statistics confirm the worst fears of many Chileans, that certain suspects are marked first to be tortured-generally for information about their political associations-and then executed...