Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Portuguese government arrested up to 30 army officers yesterday after soldiers opposed to Portugal s colonial war in Africa tried to march on Lisbon and overthrow the government...
...clarity or magnitude to persuade either Congress or the American people that impeachment is justified. But they surely, at least until answered, pose the greatest threat yet to Nixon's survival. For they are the work not of his traditional enemies, of a hostile press, of partisans attempting to overthrow his mandate, or any of the groups that the President has at various times accused of magnifying and distorting Watergate for their own vindictive ends. They are the considered judgment of 23 ordinary Americans who, if having examined the evidence and found cause for the probable guilt of Richard Nixon...
...imprisonment of his brother by Nasser on charges of handing over state secrets to the CIA. Mustafa Amin was recently freed on Sadat's orders, together with a number of political prisoners. Among them was former War Minister Mohammed Fawzi, jailed in 1971 for allegedly attempting to overthrow Sadat...
...nations are imperialistic. All nations are capable of working for freedom and justice. Returning democracy to Greece or preventing its overthrow in Chile are achievements that must be wrought by a partnership of a progressive government and an enlightened military. So while we work for the removal of Nixon from the White House, let us return ROTC to Harvard. John Hook...
Reston did not hide his distaste for Castro's Cuba. He said that the "self-interest of the [U.S.] undoubtedly requires the overthrow of the Cuban government of Fidel Castro, which is providing a political and, increasingly, a military base of communism in the Carribean" (column, April 12, 1961). The column was headlined "The Moral Question...