Word: overthrows
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Those State Department and Immigration officials who tried to block Quilapayun's entrance, because of the group's political affiliation or its association with a government that the United States helped to overthrow, should be excoriated for their needless obstructionist tactics...
...case the airport is closed down by Khmer Rouge rocket attacks. Such a desperate ploy might extend the war for a few days, or even a week or two, but not for long. This week the city braced itself for the fifth anniversary of the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk, a date the insurgents have previously celebrated with heavy attacks...
...speaker, Ruth Ryan, who describes her caucus as a "rank and file group" whose goal is to "overthrow the bureaucrats who run the unions," is one of 500 women formerly employed in the General Motors plant in Fremont, California that laid off half of its 5000 workers early this year...
America's refusal to recognize the Castro government, and its immoral and disastrous attempts to overthrow the regime, are part of an unwillingness to come to terms with reality which unfortunately characterizes a great deal of recent American foreign policy. Throughout the 14-year period, Castro repeatedly expressed his readiness to establish amicable relations with this country. And just last fall, the Cuban government conveyed to visiting Senators Jacob K. Javits and Claiborne Pell its anxiousness to achieve a detente with the United States...
...fighting in Eritrea were not crisis enough, the military government in Addis Ababa-whose front man is Brigadier General Teferi Benti-also had to contend with a series of royalist revolts that stemmed from its overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie last September...