Word: overthrows
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China gave permission for a legal scholar to travel to the U.S. and paroled another dissident held since 1990 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government. Both moves appeared to be part of an effort to persuade President Clinton to renew China's most-favored-nation trade status. At the same time, China's legislature announced 18 new grounds for detaining and arresting dissidents, and at least six people were detained in Shanghai...
...while, the Haitian military has been tightening its hold on the country. Since February, international observers have chronicled a "systematic" attempt by the army and its paramilitary cohort, the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti, to terrorize Aristide supporters. In the 31 months since his overthrow, about 3,000 are said to have been killed; over the past three months, the observers documented 157 suspicious deaths and 16 abductions as well as illegal detentions at secret torture centers. In Gonaives alone, the Catholic Church's Peace and Justice Commission reported 7,300 arbitrary arrests last year. Bribes...
...needs to be done, but still, they need some sort of push, because they still have to learn how to face reality. So although people are much more aware that they can't live in a world with mass destruction weapons, they still need to be more active and overthrow the government...
Wang responded by publishing an open letter to the National People's Congress, the parliament that assembled last week for its annual two-week session. He assured the NPC that "a democracy movement is not a movement to overthrow the government," and he called on parliamentarians to debate "the protection of individual political rights and innate human rights." Wang says he will begin investigating rights abuses, and is prepared "even to be arrested and sentenced...
Sound-bite: Using the campus press, granola revolutionaries overthrow the patriarchy in the name...