Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle-class background, her studies at Brandeis and in Germany and--lamentably--her physical attractiveness probably have much to do with why Davis is afforded a more cordial reception than many of her comrades in struggle. In addition, although Davis is a revolutionary, dedicated to the overthrow of the capitalist oppressors, she does not allow her appeals to the masses to become clogged with abstract rhetoric and petty haranguing over who will lead the revolution, which of the diverse Communist or Socialist groups is right, or any of the other questions that fragment many Marxist organizations. Her immediate struggle...
Carrying a carload of pro-Moscow propaganda, the driver was apparently on his way to a clandestine meeting of an underground group that had been plotting to overthrow Tito and realign Yugoslavia more closely with the Soviet Union. Within weeks, 32 conspirators -most of them former secret-police agents and hard-line Communist war veterans-were arrested and convicted...
...throne of Iran; the 1954 revolution that overthrew the Communist-dominated government of President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. The CIA has been suspected of participating in the 1967 military coup in Greece, the capture and killing in 1967 of Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia, and the 1970 overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia...
...does try to subvert or overthrow unfriendly governments?as in the Congo (now Zaire) in 1963 and Ghana in 1966. In Mexico, authorities uncovered a KGB-sponsored guerrilla group in 1971. Just last week officials in Belgrade disclosed an unsuccessful Soviet attempt to set up a pro-Moscow underground party in Yugoslavia. Moreover, the KGB's Disinformation Department tries to sow suspicion abroad by circulating false rumors and forged documents. A case in point: the KGB campaign now going on to convince Indians that American exchange scholars and Peace Corps volunteers are actually CIA agents...
...People's Republic is still "massive, profoundly collectivist, and professedly anti-individualist." Important habits of the Confucian tradition have been modified: rule by an imperial figure still persists, for example, and so does adherence to ideological orthodoxy, whether Confucian or Communist. Ironically, the methods used to overthrow the old system are reminiscent of past methods. The Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution had their prototypes in the antiforeign Boxers of the 19th century. In Confucian times, too, crowds of villagers used to gather to hear mandatory lectures on ethics...