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...long been imminent. For centuries, the Tutsi held the Hutu in a type of feudal boundage. The Belgians allowed Tutsi domination to continue when they took over Ruanda-Urundi (now divided into Rwanda and the Kingdom of Burundi) after World War I. Only in 1959 did the Hutu overthrow the Tutsi's jealously guarded hegemony...
...report, the directions in which we point, as well as by outright forecast. Everyone on our staff recalls his own favorite prediction, be it the precise forecast of the end of the American retreat in Korea, or Ike's nomination in 1952, or the uneasy suggestion that the overthrow of Diem's regime in South Viet Nam would only lead to other coups...
...investigating committee last week found Cuba guilty of attempting "to overthrow the democratic government of Venezuela through terrorism, sabotage, assault and guerrilla warfare." Venezuela's documented evidence included a three-ton cache of smuggled Cuban arms and a fantastic battle plan for the capture of Caracas by Castro-directed local Communists. Later, Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt summoned the ambassadors of England, Spain and France and warned them to choose between trade with Cuba-about $100 million as presently proposed-and trade with Venezuela, worth some $400 million annually. Betancourt also threatened to expropriate Venezuela's Shell...
...correspondents in Saigon and the extent to which they may have distorted the news and helped shape Washington's Viet Nam policy. In a recent Senate speech, Dodd suggested that the press had deliberately buried reports of all the Buddhist immolations* that have occurred since Diem's overthrow. Now, in a letter accompanying republication of the U.N. study by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Dodd declared that some of the mission's findings raise "doubts about the authenticity and spontaneity" of the Saigon suicides that preceded the coup...
Communists in the United States do not want the violent overthrow of the government, said Dan Rubin, editor of Communist Viewpoint, last night. He said that they seek to establish "socialism" peacefully...