Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disbelief at McCord's testimony that he had believed Mitchell's authorization made the wiretapping and burglary legal. Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) repeatedly demanded whether McCord though that O'Brien, McGovern or Muskie represented a threat to national security, or in his words, "a violent threat to overthrow the government...
...company presented a test case of the answer, it is International Telephone & Telegraph Co. ITT is the biggest of all multinational conglomerates (annual revenues: $8.6 billion), and for slightly more than a year now it has been accused of making political payoffs in the U.S. and conspiring to overthrow the government of Chile. This week ITT executives will face stockholders at the annual meeting with a mixed report: profits are up, but the company's stock is way down...
...With the overthrow of the Diem regime in 1963 and the ensuing series of coups and counter-coups over the following two years, the NLF continued to increase its power--to the point where by early 1965 most of rural South Vietnam was under liberation force control. The NLF expected to control the country and press for reunification with the North in a matter of months...
Brandeis hitters jumped on starting Pitcher Mike O'Malley in the bottom half of the eighth for three hits and two runs, one of them unearned. The first run scored on a bloop single. The second runner crossed the plate after catcher Rich Bridich made an overthrow trying to cut off the batter's attempt to reach second base...
...Your pious disapproval of the actions of ITT [April 2] in its attempt to overthrow the election of Chile's Allende leaves this writer unimpressed. The expropriation of ITT property without adequate compensation is thievery pure and simple, no different in spirit and effect than the act of a larcenist, embezzler or any other thief...