Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...giant monopolists, but small businessmen, owners of one or a few trucks who were honestly fearful that Popular Unity planned to expropriate their property. They acted from fear, a fear that their world was about to be shattered. They could have acted no other way. And yet they helped overthrow a government dedicated to greater freedom and justice for all Chileans. They killed a good and decent man. They are blameless, but they are responsible...
...moved to alert Allende on the ground that to do so would have been interfering in the internal affairs of another nation. The explanation was obviously not strong enough to dispel the suspicion that the U.S. had played some part in engineering the Chilean President's overthrow...
...panel formed to study the multinational question was approved largely because of Chile's explosive accusations that ITT, the $8.6 billion U.S. multinational, had tried to prevent Salvador Allende from assuming the nation's presidency in 1970. The hearings began on the day of Allende's overthrow...
...lackluster successor was edged out narrowly by Allende, the "Marxist" candidate. Chile's woes began as soon as Allende took office. He ruined the economy and needlessly turned the great majority of the country against him as inflation skyrocketed and food and medical shortages grew. Allende's overthrow was tragic, certainly, but he had it coming because he tried to do too much too fast...
...surround the two-story embassy in Paris' Passy district, the gunmen announced that they would release their hostages only if Jordan would free Abu Daud, a former high-ranking leader of Al-Fatah who is serving a life sentence in a Jordanian prison for allegedly plotting to overthrow King Hussein's regime. Jordan categorically refused.* The gunmen then temporarily shelved their insistence on Abu Daud's release and asked instead for a plane and crew to fly them to an Arab capital - preferably Algiers, where the Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Countries was meeting...