Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...directly address the issue of "human rights" about which Gordon speaks. The South End Low Cost Housing Committee renovates abandoned South End buildings for low and middle-income families. The Columbia Point Program provides recreational activities and educational enrichment for disadvantaged children. None of these explicitly aim toward the overthrow of existing social structures, but all seek to improve the quality of people's lives and extend to them the tools necessary for individual survival and community participation...
...years of power. Now 48, she still lives there with her three children in almost complete seclusion, under the supervision of Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc, 75, Diem's oldest brother. She was last heard from in a statement saying the Pentagon papers' details on U.S. involvement in Diem's overthrow showed "That I, Mme. Nhu. spoke the truth." Her most recent price for an interview: $1,000, with photo...
...mention the possibility that negotiations between Saigon and the P.R.G. on the caretaker government could slog on for years-the plan would make it tough for anyone to judge with any certainty whether or not Nixon had made good on his pledge not to "join our enemy to overthrow our ally...
...Paris' stately Palais de Justice, eleven men from the ancient province of Brittany went on trial this month before the rarely convened National Security Court. The charges: terrorism and seeking to overthrow the authority of the state. Before the proceedings began, the conservative daily Le Figaro predicted that the defendants-members of an underground organization seeking autonomy for Brittany-would use the trial as a "magnificent platform" for their cause. It was, as matters turned out, a most accurate guess...
...Ugandan army under Amin's command was in fact the biggest threat facing Ugandans last week. The army, now dominated by his own West Nile group of Moslem tribes, had already massacred thousands of Lango and Acholi tribesmen after Amin's overthrow of President Milton Obote in 1971. Since last month's brief battle with invading Ugandan exiles from Tanzania, the army has turned on the Baganda, the country's largest tribe. Military police have made wholesale arrests, including Benedicto Kiwanuka, the Chief Justice of Uganda who was also the Baganda's most revered leader...