Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...follow on December 12, will outline the dimensions of what the editors consider to be a necessary popular debate on the question of imperialism. The two supplements will try to clarify the direction of multinational economic expansion and the aims of movements and countries struggling to resist or overthrow such domination...
...setbacks and false starts, despite the American military interventions and the Nassers, the imperialist hold on the world is loosening. Vietnam's success in resisting the U.S. military has encouraged other Third World peoples and given birth to an anti-imperialist movement within this country. Disheartening events like the overthrow of the Allende government are certainly great defeats, but they are not permanent. The United States cannot continue to twist the lives, thwart the aspirations and deny the humanity of the majority of the people--brothers and sisters--who share this planet with...
...King has hinted that he is even uncomfortable about the role he was forced to play in ousting the former leaders.) A new constitution must not only exclude the military from politics but must also create a government so stable that the military will not be tempted to overthrow it. Moreover, the members of the new national Parliament must be selected in a way that will not confuse the politically unsophisticated peasantry. Above all, the constitution must find some method of preventing the growth of dozens of tiny political factions and splinter groups, which paralyzed Thailand's previous attempts...
President Nguyen Van Thieu, who had backed Diem's overthrow, helped defray the costs of the commemoration with a $1,000 contribution, presumably in hopes of using the incipient Diem cult to solidify non-Communist ranks within the country. He is in no danger of being overthrown as Diem was. But growing economic problems at home, along with the continuing threat of a North Vietnamese military offensive, mean Thieu needs all the help...
...Disraeli than Mao: a new constitution (the old one had been arbitrarily scrapped by the military government in 1971) and free elections. To the government, however, the demands amounted to near sedition. Twelve student demonstrators and professors were arrested and charged with "instigating public unrest and trying to overthrow the present government...