Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Managua, Ortega described the accusations as an attempt by the Reagan Administration to revive support in Congress for the contras, who are trying to overthrow the Nicaraguan regime. He called the charges "lies and calumnies...
...will be seven leaders of the outlawed Solidarity trade-union movement who have been in jail since December 1981, when martial law was declared. The regime of Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski is now spared the embarrassment of continuing the two-week-old trial of four intellectuals accused of conspiring to overthrow the Communist system...
...wear gold boots with green hearts and T shirts with breasts printed on them. The men buy calfskin jackets if they can afford them, checkered suits if they cannot. During their frequent alcoholic binges, they plot absurd schemes for a National Liberation Army of the Czechoslovak People that will overthrow their country's Communist tyrants...
Although the Roman Catholic hierarchy supported the Sandinistas' overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, it became disenchanted as the new leadership imposed curbs on personal freedom, including press censorship and restrictions on public assembly. More recently, the church has opposed the government's decision to draft all men over the age of 17. In addition, the Pope has been at odds with four priests who disregarded his opposition to political involvement by taking high-level positions in the Sandinista government...
...official indictment charged the four men who went on trial in Warsaw last week with conspiring to overthrow the Communist system in Poland. That could mean only one thing: they had collaborated with the banned Solidarity movement. So when Intellectuals Jacek Kuron, Adam Michnik, Henryk Wujec and Zbigniew Romaszewski appeared before a military tribunal, former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa broke off his summer vacation to travel to Warsaw. Although rows of police prevented Walesa from entering the military courthouse, his presence drew cheers and applause from the crowd that had gathered outside...