Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came with a secret visit by Robert Kennedy to Soviet Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Dobrynin. Khrushchev says that Kennedy told Dobrynin: "We are under pressure from our military to use force against Cuba. If the situation continues much longer, the President is not sure that the military will not overthrow him and seize power." That quote is clearly suspect, suggesting that Khrushchev himself magnanimously found what he describes as "a dignified way out" of the crisis; most Western accounts give that credit to the Kennedys. In any case, Khrushchev continues: "We sent the Americans a note saying we agreed...
Ultimate Dream. Evidently Mishima hoped-vainly-that his seppuku might arouse the 125,000 Japanese who belong to the 400 or so right-wing organizations in the country. When a similar revolt was staged in February 1936 by a group of young soldiers who tried to overthrow the government, it foreshadowed the disastrous Tojo regime of four years later. Mishima had written a short story, Patriotism, about that revolt, and in 1965 he made it into a movie. He himself acted the lead role of a young army lieutenant who commits hara-kiri with his wife after a night...
...knife-wielding Guinean in 1969, but the young fanatic bungled the job, and was lynched by an angry crowd before he could implicate anyone else. Altogether, in the dozen years since Guinea won independence from the French, Touré has complained of at least half a dozen attempts to overthrow his regime...
...want you to sign this so that you know the FBI is not interested in infringing on anyone's freedoms," Duncan said. Revzin signed the statement which said that he volunteered to give the FBI information because he opposed the violent overthrow of the government and wanted to help the FBI oppose any group advocating this...
...Says Harold Kaplan, a newly minted Canadian citizen and chairman of the political-science department at Toronto's York University: "People who used to be reasonable liberals have been pushed far out to the right or to the left, so you now have one group that wants to overthrow the system and another that is sickeningly reactionary. People are going berserk...