Word: overthrows
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Critics in and outside Congress, however, charge that Reagan's real purpose is to overthrow the Sandinista regime by force, and that to do it he is willing to bankroll a reckless contra campaign that could end by dragging the U.S. into a Viet Nam-style war in Central America. The mining has deepened their skepticism, and shaken the faith of Reagan supporters in the Administration's repeated assurances that its prime aim in backing the contras is to stop the flow of Communist weapons into Nicaragua and from there into El Salvador. Said Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine...
...Nicaragua until they quit that kind of action." In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, made public on the same day in a successful effort to win Senate votes for aid to the contras, the President repeated that the U.S. "does not seek to destabilize or overthrow the government of Nicaragua...
...thought crime is to be a legitimate charge (and so far, nothing else has been charged) then, for God's sake. let's lock up everyone who ever advocated the violent overthrow of the United States government-- and everyone out there who ever mumbled about wishing Reagan had been killed had better turn yourselves in to the Though Police This goes as well for women who advocate burning down the Pi Eta building...
...instigators: Muslim members of the palace guard loyal to former President Ahmadou Ahidjo, a northern Muslim whom President Paul Biya, a southern Christian, replaced in 1982. Ahidjo, who had led Cameroon for 22 years before going into exile in France, was convicted in absentia last year of plotting to overthrow Biya. Last week's rebellion was apparently sparked by Biya's efforts to replace Muslim officers with Christians loyal to him. Though no details were available, the government radio announced at week's end that the mutiny had failed...
...Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. at a dinner. He leaned over and made an offer. Would the new Administration like to open a discreet line of communication with the rebels in El Salvador? I exploded: no longer, I said, would Washington deal secretly with insurgents who were attempting to overthrow legal governments in the Western Hemisphere. In the next four years, the Americas would see a determined U.S. effort to stamp out Cuban-supported subversion...