Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Characteristically both Machiavellian and idealistic, the Kennedy Administration approved efforts to encourage a coup after Diem's attack on Buddhist pagodas in August, but when reservations over the success of an overthrow deepened, the U.S. withdrew its clandestine support of the generals and the coup was delayed. Concern heightened, however, with reports that Nhu might seek rapprochement with the North, which could have resulted in a neutralist government in Saigon. The plotting continued, and two days before Diem was ousted, McGeorge Bundy cabled Lodge...
...ruling class" over the war and its incumbent phenomena-seems to evade the rhetorical definitions we would ascribe, so does the movement. Which continues to find itself caught schizophrenically between outrage at what cannot continue in a world of rational men and sustained militance, born of a desire to overthrow that which is in the very nature of a world demarcated by class rather than good and evil. A world in which imperialist wars at not mistakes to be undone but rational, self-interested investment protection, and will thus be inevitable until the system which makes them necessary is banished...
...cowboy clothes. "The pigs do not know I am here," she told a press conference held in a bar, adding that she had emerged from the Cleavers' sanctuary in Algeria "to raise money for the establishment of a Revolutionary Peoples Communication Network" designed to "lead to the overthrow of white capitalism." But the film folk had no money for Kathleen, and not much time either. Greek Author Vassilis Vassilikos, who wrote the novel from which the movie Z was made, began to heckle her about what he claimed was the Panthers' support of "fascism in Greece...
...Presidential Affairs Sami Sharaf, two leaders of the Arab Socialist Union, the speaker of the National Assembly, and three other ministers-in sum, the heads of all the military, legislative and political institutions in the country. Then he placed all nine under house arrest on charges of plotting to overthrow his government...
...ruling class" over the war and its incumbent phenomena-seems to evade the rhetorical definitions we would ascribe, so does the movement. Which continues to find itself caught schizophrenically between outrage at what cannot continue in a world of rational men and sustained militance, born of a desire to overthrow that which is in the very nature of a world demarcated by class rather than good and evil. A world in which imperialist wars are not mistakes to be undone but rational, self-interested investment protection, and will thus be inevitable until the system which makes them pecessary is banished...