Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...armed and the men were in high spirits. Most of them were former Ugandan soldiers and paramilitary police who had fled the country after the ouster of President Milton Obote, himself in exile in Tanzania. They had spent several months in secret training in Tanzania guerrilla camps, preparing to overthrow the military regime of Uganda's increasingly erratic dictator, General Idi Amin Dada...
...silence, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos went on nationwide radio and TV to proclaim a state of martial law. Civil government would be continued, he said, but campuses would be closed. Restrictions on travel, the press and communications would remain in force until the government dealt with "a conspiracy to overthrow the government...
Died. John F.X. McGohey, 78, Government prosecutor in the celebrated 1949 trial of Eugene Dennis and ten Communists for conspiring to overthrow the U.S. Government by force; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In a heated nine-month trial before Judge Harold Medina, McGohey persisted through uproarious courtroom disruptions in pressing for the conviction of the U.S. Communist Party's national board. The case ended in jail terms for the defendants, and McGohey was rewarded for his victory with a federal judgeship...
...themselves on Uruguay's Tupamaro guerrillas, the gang, which numbered about 25 at its zenith, has engaged in a string of brazen bank robberies, car thefts and shoot-outs with police during the past two years. The motive is political. Through acts of violence, the gang seeks to overthrow West German society and drive the U.S. military presence from the country. Now only three important members of the gang remain at large-Bonnie and two of her girls...
...first Micombero insisted that the uprising was a plot by Tutsi royalists who were trying to free the King. Soon, though, it became clear that the rebels were Hutu revolutionaries whose real aim was to overthrow the Micombero government...