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...pressure. The U.S. has sometimes tried to encourage and work with prodemocratic political organizations, open or covert, in other countries, but it has not been particularly successful or skillful in this effort. We must understand that the most important task usually does not end but only begins with the overthrow of a dictator. In the wake of the Falklands defeat, Argentina got rid of its ruling generals, and as far as many Americans were concerned, that was it. But helping Argentina's fragile democracy survive is infinitely more difficult and demands far more skill--and more money. It is easy...
...contra representative, who has met mixed receptions on other area campuses, said that the aid would furnish the Honduras-based rebels with equipment sorely needed if they are to overthrow the leftist Sandinista regime that took power in Nicaragua...
...Reagan Doctrine holds that the U.S. should bypass nervous and sometimes unreliable foreign friends in order to harass and, if possible, overthrow Moscow's clients in the Third World. SDI, as originally conceived by Reagan in 1983, was a deus ex machina of global unilateralism: a made-in-the-U.S.A. system for effectively disarming the Soviet Union and any other foreign threat to the U.S. (including, in a number of scenarios, a nuclear-armed Gaddafi or other Islamic firebrand...
...Reagan Administration vigorously denied that it had played any part in the coup. A U.S. State Department official, responding to the charge that the U.S. and Enrile had plotted to overthrow Marcos, unleashed a single expletive that he later softened to "Balderdash...
...running mate, Arturo Tolentino, had been proclaimed vice president during the Rizal Park rally and vowed to take his oath "within six months," thus becoming acting President in Marcos' absence. The accelerating agitation brought a warning from Enrile that Marcos loyalists and forces of the left were out to overthrow the Aquino government...