Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days before the proclamation of the Act-never before used in peace time-support had been growing in Quebec's political and intellectual circles for the goals of the FLQ, which advocates a nationally independent Quebec and the overthrow of its capitalist economy...
...words of Richard Gilbert, who also served as field director in Indonesia, "an army which was originally a guerilla army, an army of independence, has been converted and now behaves like an army of occupation." The hope of the Indonesian people for a better life after the overthrow of Sukaron's abusive political and economic policies has met with mass murders, political concentration camps, and massive American "aid" and investment. And where does the DAS stand among all this...
Even the participation of a slate backed by the antigovernment An Quang Pagoda Buddhist faction was expected to work in Thieu's favor. One of the faction's leaders is Thich Tri Quang, who helped overthrow the Diem regime in 1963. The militant group had previously scorned participation in the present government. The fact that they fielded a slate of candidates on the ballot, with the lotus blossom for their symbol, was regarded in Saigon as a return to the legitimate fold. It would support Thieu's claim that electoral democracy is becoming a reality in South...
...Whites stood for a bourgeois or even a Tsarist restoration, and all the dreaded forms of exploitation which that involved. The threat of the sailors was serious enough, but for the most part it was reformist in nature; the reactionaries would settle on nothing less than the final overthrow of Bolshevik rule...
Some people had thought Preminger to be a quasi-radical for filming Exodus. The pro-Jewish liberation content made martyrs of the extremists-terrorists who were instrumental in the overthrow of the system. ( cf. Battle of Algiers ) But times had changed...