Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...denies it) to the Maoist Movement for the Reorganization of the Proletariat, a noisy, university-based party, hundreds of whose members were jailed during the Communist-influenced regime of ousted Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves. Hydraheaded, the extreme left is united in at least one goal: to overthrow the present moderate government...
...political consciousness-raising efforts on other actors. This summer, she and her brother Corin, 36, opened a clandestine school for revolutionaries at the Parwich house, which he bought on behalf of the party for $46,000. For a two-week course in the W.R.P.'s avowed aim, "the overthrow of capitalism," students are charged $60 and asked to observe strict rules, which include keeping blankets and sleeping bags folded neatly on the beds and staying out of the Sycamore Arms...
...left-wing sectarianism. He remembers a meeting in 1954 for the unification of the Young Socialists and the Young People's Socialist League. The convention was highlighted by the decision to rename the gathering, "the September Plenum," dedicated to the establishment of a workers' state and to the overthrow of the capitalist, bourgeois regime." The decision was wildly applauded by all of the eighty-three members present...
McCloskey asked the audience of 80 to vote on whether Rep. Michael J. Harrington (D-Mass.) should be censured by Congress for revealing classified Central Intelligence Agency information about U.S. involvement in the 1974 overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende...
...while after his overthrow, there were rumors that the new, increasingly leftist military government intended to execute the old Emperor, or allow him to go into exile in exchange for the hoard he was said to have in numerous Swiss banks. Instead, he was permitted to spend his last days in Addis Ababa under an easy house arrest. Servants still addressed him as "Your Imperial Majesty." As recently as last December, he remarked to two foreign visitors, "I can convoke my ministers, generals and relatives whenever I like." After all those decades of absolute power, the old man apparently could...