Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only a successful withdrawal from Indochina but some form of victory as well. That victory would be based on the ability of a South Vietnamese government to survive without large-scale U.S. help and like South Korea after 1954, to hold its own against Communist attempts to overthrow or subvert it. That may be only wishful thinking, but success in Laos is essential if such a victory is even to have a chance of becoming reality. The President had a valid point when he warned against too quick judgments on Laos. "The jury," he said, "is still...
Shortly after New Year's, Costa Rican Ambassador to Washington Rafael A. Zúñiga visited Assistant Secretary of State Charles Meyer and bluntly asked: "Is the U.S. plotting the overthrow of Don Pepe?" Meyer expressed astonishment, and a few days later, State Department Troubleshooter C. Allan Stewart was dispatched to San José. Still Williamson was not recalled...
...Williamson was ordered to make no comment on the situation. Ploeser may indeed be recalled before long-but at Foggy Bottom's pleasure, not Don Pepe's. And a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, after a closed hearing, found no evidence that the U.S. Government had "attempted to overthrow" the Figueres government, although it did cite "overzealous actions" by unnamed officials...
...their loyalty to the Government before they can be licensed to practice. In cases from Arizona and Ohio, the court ruled 5 to 4 that bar applicants need not list all of the organizations they have joined, or swear that they have never belonged to groups that advocate violent overthrow of the Government. But in a New York case, the court (also 5 to 4) made a subtle distinction: New York, and presumably other states, may require bar applicants to reveal whether they ever belonged to a subversive group with the actual intent to advance its aims of overthrowing...
...country. Legality towards a criminal government is a matter of tactics, not philosophy. Relying on liberal politicians to dismantle America's imperial dominance will only result in further disillusionment among those working towards basic structural changes within this country. In the end, it is we who will have to overthrow that structure...