Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...QUESTION here is not "Why divest?" that question has been answered again and again, usually very eloquently. The real question is "Why divest only?" Supporters of divestiture from South Africa to he morally consistent should work for other ways to overthrow apartheid such as loly bying and boycotting goods made by companies doing business there while at the same time demonstrating dissents with crud practices in all unjust parts of the world (including here in the United States). I do not pretend that, in their current inconsistency supporters of divestiture are therefore wrong because they probably are not But only...
...novel The Turner Diaries is an action thriller: a hardy band of U.S. patriots turns to guerrilla warfare to overthrow a tyrannical government. But the book is actually a bigot's fantasy. The guerrilla fighters are neo-Nazis who finance their revolution through bank robberies and counterfeiting, blow up the FBI building in Washington, D.C., murder American Jews, blacks and Hispanics, and use nuclear bombs to annihilate Israel...
...belong to other right-wing groups like the Ku Klux Klan. It adds to our concern about violence." According to Lyn Wells, director of the Atlanta-based National Anti-Klan Network, Klan philosophy has become more Nazi-oriented. "These are generic Nazis," she says. "They want to reinstate segregation, overthrow the Government and, ultimately, establish a white republic...
According to authorities, the Brotherhood of Silence preaches the violent overthrow of the Government and has links to other white-supremacist organizations. In addition to the two men arrested last week, five others are in jail awaiting trial and one was killed in a shootout with police, prompting U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello to say that the Brotherhood "seems to have been successfully neutered at this time." Yet two others are believed to be at large, and only a fraction of the money stolen has been recovered...
...armed insurrection and military dictatorship spread across Latin America, liberation theology took on a more explicitly political dimension. The radical fringe of liberation theology eventually seemed to find its model of change in the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution. Priests and Catholic laymen united with the Marxist-Leninist Sandinistas to overthrow Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. In the ensuing euphoria of the Sandinista triumph, the Rev. Paul Schmitz, a U.S. priest who is now a bishop in Nicaragua, declared that the country "is a laboratory for all of Latin America...