Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human rights," and recommended: "There is no other way for the Park regime but to accept responsibility by stepping down." The government's official answer was that the declaration was part of a plot "to throw our country into a state of utter social chaos in order to overthrow the government and take over...
...executed officers was former Defense Minister I.D. Bisalla, who had helped bring Murtala to power in an earlier, successful coup last July. Bisalla and many of the others were apparently implicated in the plot by Lieut. Colonel B.S. Dimka, the man who led the Feb. 13 overthrow attempt. Dimka managed to stay at large for three weeks, despite a nationwide manhunt, but he was captured at a roadblock in eastern Nigeria earlier this month...
...According to the Nigerian government, Dimka has also implicated Yakubu Gowon, the former head of state who was exiled after the coup that brought Murtala to power last July. Gowon, according to the government's charge, instructed Dimka to get together with Defense Minister Bisalla and attempt to overthrow the government. Their reasons for acting, said Nigeria's new defense chief, Brigadier Musa Yarduah, was the government's plan to cut the size of the army by almost half, a move that would transfer the 100,000 soldiers affected to other jobs, but which might leave...
...captors were "crazy people" who were "decidedly serious that they could overthrow the United States of America through terrorist tactics." After she was frightened into submission, she also became convinced that the FBI would kill her if she tried to escape?a conviction, Bailey went on, that was only hardened by then Attorney General William Saxbe's remark that Patty should be regarded as "nothing but a common criminal." At the moment she was captured by FBI agents last September, Bailey continued, "her terror mounted to the point which is probably the highest a human being can stand...
Rightly or wrongly, multinational corporations have been accused of a multitude of sins: bribery, tax evasion, reaping outlandish profits, seeking to overthrow governments. Lately the list has grown to include a truly ghastly accusation. Nestle Alimentana of Vevey, Switzerland, the mammoth (1974 sales: $5.6 billion) and venerable food company, is being charged by activists with responsibility for mass deaths of babies...