Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...represent a political alternative. They do not support Republicans or Democrats or the Progressive Labor Party or any other practitioner of "bourgeois politics." The difference between the Sparts and other political organizations is that while others work for reform within the existing political framework, the Sparts wish to overthrow that existing system...
...wonder then that they are hated. Who would want to overthrow this fine American system? Can you imagine life without capitalism? Without social, political and economic inequality? Without greed, opportunism, or racism? Would we all be speaking Russian after such a revolution? Is there any hope that American society will change...
...tribal warfare. Matabeleland is the homeland of the Matabele tribe and of Nkomo, and Mugabe's victory in the nationwide elections moved many of Nkomo's supporters to become rebellious. Nkomo himself was sacked from the Cabinet two years ago, after he was accused of plotting to overthrow the government. The territory is also plagued by armed bandits who kill as well as plunder. Over the past two years, dozens of white farmers have been murdered. At least 75 people were murdered by anti-government terrorists in the last half of 1983. In March, saboteurs blew...
...move first against Nicaragua; indeed, it gave the Sandinistas $75 million in economic aid the year after the 1979 overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, which the U.S. implicitly encouraged. But Nicaragua joined with the Soviets and Cubans to preach Marxist-Leninist revolution through the region. Even the Democratic-controlled House Intelligence Committee found last year that the Salvadoran "insurgency depends for its lifeblood-arms, ammunition, financing, logistics and command-and-con-trol facilities-upon outside assistance from Nicaragua and Cuba." The crucial question is how far the Administration intends to go with its support of the contras. Its original...
...hopes to pressure the Sandinistas into negotiating an end to the region's revolutions. As the stakes become higher, the effort required is greater and the moral rectitude of the U.S. is less clear. Going the next step, actually trying to overthrow the Nicaraguan government, would be a violation of professed international standards and American ideals. These standards and ideals remain significant even though the contingencies of the real world sometimes force the U.S. and other countries to ignore them. France helped overthrow Emperor Bokassa of the Central African Republic in 1979, for example, and the U.S. played...