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Denley had shown the agent a contract with a mysterious Dutch organization, the Ansus-Foundation, to overthrow the Surinamese government. He and his henchmen apparently planned to pose as financiers interested in opening a bank and then kidnap several of the country's leftist leaders. The FBI agent later agreed to provide ten mercenaries along with various weapons and join up with the six soldiers of fortune recruited by Denley. Last week FBI and Customs Service agents arrested 14 individuals, including Denley, a former U.S. Customs officer. Agents found 13 handguns, two semiautomatic rifles, two shotguns and 1,000 rounds...
...toward the American people. The U.S. is no stranger to us. We still have full diplomatic relations, as well as trade relations. But from the onset of our revolutionary process, our relations have not been as they should be. Ethiopians had the basic right to fight oppression, to overthrow the monarchy. The fact that we exercised this right should not have irritated Washington. But we were denied aid that had been given previously. Just as we accept the social and political order in the U.S., the U.S. should accept the social and political choice we have made. The failure...
...with attempting a coup against a left-wing "strongman's" government in the small South American country of Surinam--a nation most people don't know exists. The article stated that "All 13 were charged with violations of the Neutrality Act, which bars Americans from involvement in attempts to overthrow other governments...
...against this one, through some editor's sense of irony, was a story with quite the opposite message. It described Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra's efforts to win further condemnation in the World Court for U.S. aid to the rebels known as Contras, who are avowedly trying to overthrow his government...
...government were to divest of all holdings in South Africa, perhaps it would lessen the chances of a violent, bloody overthrow of the white supremacist government, and pave the way for a peaceful solution. If, on the other hand, Harvard were to divest, the economic consequences would not be so great. Apartheid could easily survive without Harvard's $416 million worth of investments. But Harvard's divestment nevertheless could make a powerful political and moral statement, a necessary step on the way to national sanctions. And it is especially necessary if Bok's lobbying is to have any effect...