Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Surrender. Nixon termed his offer "fair to North Viet Nam and fair to South Viet Nam. And it deserves the support of the American people." Indicating the limits of U.S. flexibility, Nixon declared: "The only thing this plan does not do is join the enemy to overthrow our ally, which the United States of America will never do. If the enemy wants peace, it will have to recognize the important difference between settlement and surrender...
...this done both directly, "generously leaving the method to us," and indirectly, by defining U.S. withdrawal as including all military and economic aid to Saigon?as well as all U.S. arms now in South Vietnamese military hands. Said Kissinger: "They are asking us to align ourselves with them, to overthrow the people that have been counting on us." The terms of withdrawal and the future makeup of the Saigon government thus remained two huge barriers to agreement, and the essential difference between Hanoi's nine-point position and the eight U.S. points...
...junta announced that the Ghanaian Parliament had been dissolved, and that the constitution had been "withdrawn." Before flying to the neighboring Ivory Coast, Busia declared in London that the Ghanaian people would resist "this selfish and senseless coup and overthrow it." His statement was mostly wishful thinking. Accra was so quiet that the junta did not even bother to impose a curfew...
...Ghana's ex-dictator Kwame Nkrumah, 62, has lived in neighboring Guinea-of which he is officially "co-President"-since his overthrow in 1966. He is now apparently succumbing to cancer, probably in a hospital in Conakry, the Guinean capital...
...friend, "the deep-revolving witty Buckingham" (as Shakespeare called him), of finishing off the princes in the Tower. Richard had nothing to gain from the crime, Farrington reasons; as certified bastards, the princes were no longer a real threat to his legitimacy. Buckingham's motive? He hoped to overthrow Richard by making him seem a monster. The princes, moreover, were a potential obstacle from Buckingham's own path to the throne. These ideas are not new, but they are ingeniously worked out. Farrington cannot match Jarman's atmosphere, but then she cannot match...