Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...within a few days, the public has learned of a second ITT scandal--involving that corporation's attempt to give the Central Intelligence Agency $1 million to overthrow the government of Chile--and a $200,000 Nixon campaign gift (subsequently returned) from Robert Vesco, a financier currently indicted in a $224 million securities fraud case. Last week two important developments underscored the Watergate case's importance...
...considerable degree in eleventh-hour backroom political trading. While they argued, the Gaullists reiterated the theme once stated by Andre Malraux: "There is only us and the Communists." As Party Secretary Peyrefitte elaborated last week, the Communists would eventually dominate the leftist coalition and then do their best to "overthrow the French government and the whole of French society...
...Arab leader who reacted strongly to the Khartoum killings was King Hussein of Jordan. Among the killers' key demands during their 60-hour occupation of the Saudi embassy was the release of 17 other Palestinian guerrillas who had been arrested in Jordan last month for plotting to overthrow Hussein's regime. Among these 17 was the man they openly called "our leader," Abu Daoud, one of Al-Fatah's highest-ranking leaders. Hussein adamantly resisted the guerrillas' demand, even though his own chargé d'affaires in Khartoum was the guerrillas' fifth hostage. Last...
...terrorists wanted nothing less than the release by the U.S. of Sirhan Sirhan, assassin of Robert Kennedy; the release by Jordan of "our leader," Abu Daoud, and 16 "colleagues" who were arrested last month for plotting to overthrow King Hussein's regime; the release by West Germany of two criminals sympathetic to Black September; the release by Israel of all female Palestinian prisoners. If their demands were not met, the terrorists said, they would start executing the hostages one by one, "beginning with the American ambassador...
...that logic, does one suppose that if Mr.Bowles is given tenure by the Economics department of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, that the U.of Mass. is interested in "overthrowing the system"? And since the U.of Mass. is a state-supported institution, does that mean that taxpayers also would endorse the "overthrow of the system...