Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, the news story reported an event whose light coverage was disproportionate to its significance: it was a matter-of-fact account of a thwarted CIA plot to overthrow Surinam's government. Convinced that the South American country's leader Lt. Col. Desi Bouterse might be soft on Communism. America's favorite foreign policy arm hatched a scheme to oust his regime, which seized power in a military coup in 1980. According to The Times' report, the CIA plan called for a paramilitary force composed primarily of Surinamese exiles to infiltrate the capital city and take over the government Maybe...
...plan derailed when it hit Congress--the law requires such foreign policy endeavors to get the nod from House and Senate intelligence subcommittees. According to sources cited in The Times, the Congressional committees rejected the CIA plan not because they housed any philosophical objection to overthrowing a foreign regime that the U.S. finds distasteful, but rather because they considered such action unwarranted in the case of Bouterse's government. Committee members were not convinced that the Surinam government posed a threat to U.S. security interests; hence, they viewed the proposed overthrow as unduly extreme...
...gone well beyond this aim. U.S. officials have been talking about the benefits of "symmetry," the latest buzzword in Washington. By symmetry Administration policymakers mean doing to the Sandinistas what the Sandinistas are doing to the government of El Salvador, namely backing a group of insurgents aimed at its overthrow. Some U.S. officials are convinced of the need to harass the Nicaraguans in order to impress upon them the notion that they cannot export revolution with impunity. Symmetry could come to imply that the Sandinistas may have to negotiate a political accommodation with the contras along the lines...
...claims of Nicaraguan aid to the Salvadoran rebels by releasing its second White Paper in two years on the subject (the first was issued in February 1981). Once again Washington asserted that Cuba, with Soviet help, was trying to "consolidate control of the Sandinista directorate in Nicaragua and to overthrow the governments of El Salvador and Guatemala...
...Korean suggestions of renewed negotiations were, snarled a North Korean radio broadcast last month, "nothing but a dog barking at the moon." Pyongyang currently aims to create a "Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo." As preconditions to further talks, however, it demands complete U.S. withdrawal from the peninsula and the overthrow of the present South Korean government...