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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incident which has received the most attention was the arrest of twenty allegedly North Korean trained Mexican revolutionaries for plotting the government's overthrow. The uncovering of this group, which calls itself the Movimiento de Accion Revolucienaria and was supposedly aided by the Soviet Union, has given President Luis Echeverria's administration excuse to expel five too-ranking Russian diplomats and begin what some say is a new wave of political repression. In a Nixonian gesture, Echeverria appealed for national unity in the face of crisis while his Partido Revolucionaria Institutional (PRI) bought pages of advertisements in the country...

Author: By Whit Stillman, | Title: Letter from Mexico Sabotage and Violence South of the Border | 5/6/1971 | See Source »

...response of the Justice Department? In effect, 'No comment.' And at the lower levels, a series of hysterical (two meanings intended) statements that this band of six or seven hundred high school dropouts, a few ex-cons and a handful of former OEO employees was plotting to overthrow the state. Good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Moynihan Writes Again | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

...probing with specific evidence of a crime, not just trying to trap possible wrongdoers. The 1968 law, though, did not limit the President's power "to obtain foreign intelligence information deemed essential to the security of the United States" or "to protect the United States against the overthrow of the Government by force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Overruling Mitchell | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

...first to be seized in the political manhunt which ushered in the junta, Andreas was imprisoned for eight months and finally exiled. Now professor of Economies at York University, Toronto, his most pressing task is the overthrow of the Greek regime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Resistance | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

...Edwards, organizer of the black boycott of the 1968 U. S. Olympic team. said that immediate struggles, such as his own black power speeches. can maintain the self-pride and spirit of black people until the overthrow and demise of the present white racist structure...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Olympic Boycott Leader Edwards Cites Protest's Benefit to Spirit | 3/23/1971 | See Source »

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