Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, the White House is trying to shore up the Lon Nol regime (see THE WORLD). But there are limits to U.S. intervention. The White House has no intention of repeating the kind of action that led to the bloody overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Viet Nam. One possibility is a return to power of deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk. No one wants this more than Sihanouk, who just arrived back in Peking after a month-long visit to insurgent-held areas in Cambodia, where he tried to drum up support among the various factions...
Ever since the 1966 overthrow of Ghana's President and self-styled Osagyefo (Redeemer), the late Kwame Nkrumah, his once prosperous country has borne the burden of the $1 billion in foreign debts that Nkrumah left behind. When a group of army officers under Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheam-pong seized power last year, they decided to solve the problem by repudiating a $94 million obligation to Britain (on the grounds that it had been incurred through corruption) and by declaring an indefinite moratorium on much of the remaining debt. A few months later, Acheampong proclaimed Ghanaian control over...
...expansion of the city's two large universities, the rising property tax rate and the distribution of the city's ever scarcer poverty funds among the lower class ethnic neighborhoods should provide fodder for the campaign. Landlords may unite behind one or more candidates in an effort to overthrow the city's controversial rent control law. Some candidates may espouse or oppose the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority's plan to convert Kendall Square into a commercial district in order to woo business or working class interests respectively. Cambridge's Plan E reform system of government and its complex proportional representation method...
...East African country is about to take place. The "guerrillas" and "spies" may emanate from neighboring Rwanda, but more often they are said to be coming from Tanzania, which in fact did allow a band of Ugandan rebels to cross the border last September in a vain effort to overthrow Amin. After that, both Tanzania and Uganda agreed to move their troops at least six miles back from their common border...
...tale of the attempt by the International Telephone & Telegraph Co. to overthrow Chile's Marxist Salvador Allende unfurled last week before a Senate subcommittee. Armed with reams of memorandums, working papers and personal letters from ITT's files, a Senate subcommittee established that the strange tale essentially began in September 1970, immediately after Allende garnered a plurality of 36% of the vote in Chile's popular presidential election, virtually assuring him of victory in the three-way runoff in Congress the following month. ITT officials, motivated by both misplaced patriotism and fear for the future...