Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...similar predicament. Free elections with universal suffrage would bring socialists to power. Establishing the democracy would mean class suicide. Freedom of assembly might turn into revolution at any moment. Freedom of speech meant agitation against the shaky government. Freedom of religion meant that the Buddhist peasants could hope to overthrow the largely Catholic middle class. Just as the French middle-class Marx wrote about found that the democracy it believed in endangered its rule and so accepted the dictatorship of Napoleon III, Vietnamese liberals found themselves accepting the dictatorship of General Diem, and refusing to hold a national election...
...history, excerpted from a book entitled Will the Revolution Succeed? by Edward Schwartz. Citing the Declaration of Independence, Andrew Jackson, Abolitionists and the Populist Manifestos, Schwartz presents a picture of the American as democratic agrarian. The key to revolution is an appeal to basic American morality. We must now overthrow big capitalism, regaining our spirit of liberty. "The American version of the concept of revolutionary nationalism would be anti-imperialist, humanist, and libertarian in content, and national in form and rhetoric...
...week's end there was no clear-cut evidence that Constantine had any knowledge of the attempt to overthrow the junta, which government spokesmen initially brushed off as an "operetta" involving "a handful" of men, including two retired admirals. But shortly afterward, 32 senior naval officers were arrested and presumably will be tried on charges of treason. Then 31 other navymen, led by the commander of the destroyer Velos, mutinied and were granted asylum at the port of Fiumicino in Italy. Then the government admitted that the "operetta" had been a serious attempt at revolution...
...referred to a study committee-a typical maneuver-and this year's protest against Israel's aggression was toughened only slightly. Uganda's General Idi Amin failed to win any quicker resolution of his complaints that Tanzania was encouraging his foe, ex-President Milton Obote to overthrow...
...erosion of support for military rule began within two years of the coup that ousted elected President Arturo Illia in 1966. Lanusse, who helped engineer the coup, now admits that Illia's overthrow was an "atrocity." While he had been "elected in a slightly 'original' way [the Peronists had been excluded from the election], he was nevertheless chosen by the people. I would not be sincere if I told you that the country swelled with enthusiasm and gaiety because of what we did. But for a time the people were hopeful and gave the [military] government support...