Word: overthrows
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...must often be simply the containment of Communism. Hence the U.S. has grown pragmatic; it has learned that order and stability, even if relatively undemocratic, can be more important in emerging nations than a premature democracy that invites chaos. Thus the U.S. officially applauded (and some say instigated) the overthrow of a hopelessly inefficient and left-wing civilian regime in Guatemala, and cheered the downfall of a left-sliding, if popularly elected, government in Brazil...
...startling allegation. "Arms and ammunition," charged National Assemblyman Thomas Malinda, "are continuously being smuggled from Communist and other foreign countries into Kenya for the purpose of staging an armed revolution to overthrow our beloved government." The charge brought a quick denial from Security Minister Njoroge Mungai, who admitted, however, that "many people have been trained in the armed forces of other countries and the first we know about it is when they get back...
...funds through Italy's Communist Party to Venezuela's terrorist Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), the doctor and his girl were the first suspects to be nabbed hot off a plane from Rome. Also arrested in Caracas last week, after intelligence reports of a conspiracy to overthrow the regime of President Raul Leoni, were 43 persons, including 13 members of the presidential guard...
...while Stone was talking in Kirkland House, "The guy follows Moscow's party line right down to the commas." Phooey. Stone has as much disdain for Communists as he has for Democrats or Republicans. He's about as eager as a local ladies auxiliary for the violent overthrow of the government...
...first principle of American law that guilt is not established by association--men are responsible for the acts that they themselves commit, and not for the acts of their friends, family, or associates. When any person or organization commits or conspires to commit a crime designed to overthrow the established government by force or violence, or to deprive individuals of the rights of American citizens, or to in timidate or oppress persons in the exercise of their constitutional rights, or to set upon and murder innocent citizens, white or black--then such persons can be adequately dealt with under...