Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foreign Service career appeared shattered, and his actions in helping to free the students were the subject of a bitter controversy in Washington. The reason: Zaïre's touchy President Mobutu Sese Seko, who recently expelled U.S. Ambassador Deane Hinton on charges that he was plotting to overthrow the government, had complained heatedly about Carter's having been in direct contact with the rebels. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger reviewed the record and according to an associate, flew into a "towering rage...
...officers, who previously had received merely militia commissions. Groups of disgruntled regulars-captains and majors-thus began meeting in secret sessions to vent their frustrations. Eventually, these discussions broadened to include political and social topics. By December 1973, a nucleus of junior officers was already thinking of ways to overthrow the Caetano regime...
Ultimately, only 19 of the 46 OAU heads of state turned up at Kampala. Three nations-Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana-boycotted the assemblage to protest Big Daddy's presence in the chair, and 24 others sent lesser delegations. The unexpected overthrow of Nigeria's Yakubu Gowon at mid-meeting cast another pall. Four participants -Congo's Marien Ngouabi, Gabon's Omar Bongo, Cameroon's Ahmadou Ahidjo and Niger's Seyni Kountché -quickly lit out for home. "Maybe they're not exactly afraid," commented one Arab delegate. "Just prudent...
Kissinger picked up the challenge. In Milwaukee, he made it clear that he had great respect for the Russian as a writer. But then the Secretary declared, "If I understand the message of Solzhenitsyn, it is that the U.S. should pursue an aggressive policy to overthrow the Soviet system. But I believe that if his views became the national policy of the U.S., we would be confronted with considerable threat of military conflict . . . I believe that the consequences of his views would not be acceptable to the American people or to the world...
...faith in its adaptability than some of its proponents. One forceful advocate of the system, Senior Editor Marshall Loeb, who edited the story, considers flexibility one of capitalism's greatest strengths: "It's a difficult system to analyze, and as revolutionaries have discovered, even more difficult to overthrow, because it's dynamic by nature-it has its own revolutions already built...