Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While reports that Washington is financing counterrevolutionaries to overthrow the Sandinistas abound, Cardenal says he has seen no evidence of this assistance, though he would be happy to have it. But he believes overt aid will be difficult to obtain in the near future because of the negative way in which the counterrevolutionaries are portrayed by the U.S. media. "We are always called invaders," Cardenal complains. "General de Gaulle wasn't an invader, he was a liberator...
...contras, however, loudly if extravagantly proclaim their objective to be precisely the overthrow of Nicaragua's increasingly repressive government. To that end, they have launched a much ballyhooed "invasion" - actually a series of hit-and-run raids by guerrillas operating inside Nicaragua. And a stream of reports by American newsmen who have visited contra bases in Honduras has left no doubt that the Administration is assisting them by supplying training, arms, and intelligence on troop movements in Nicaragua's northern provinces gathered by spy plane...
...Moscow that ended the Cuban missile crisis by trading a Kremlin agreement not to put Soviet nuclear weapons into Cuba for a U.S. pledge not to invade Cuba. The new understandings would pledge all parties "not to supply assistance to revolutionary or counterrevolutionary movements that might seek to overthrow governments, to terminate any such aid currently being given, and not to allow their territories to be used for subverting other governments." American signatories of the panel's report included former Cabinet officers Robert McNamara, Elliot Richardson, Edmund Muskie and Cyrus Vance; such business leaders as Banker David Rockefeller...
...diplomatic estimates, only 2,000 to 3,000 rebels were involved in the insurgency, far too few to oust the increasingly unpopular Marxist-led Sandinista government, which is named after a Nicaraguan nationalist rebel of the 1930s, Augusto César Sandino, and took power in 1979 after the overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle...
...unlike the recluse of the last years, the young Henry Adams pushed toward the vortex of events. In Washington in 1869 he wrote brilliant articles on the corruption in the Grant Administration. When liberal Republicans tried to overthrow President Grant by nominating Henry's father, Charles Francis Adams, Henry exulted: "Just now I am engaged singlehanded in the slight task of organizing a new party to contest the next presidential election...