Word: overthrows
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...military camp outside Leopoldville, a battalion of paratroopers watched glumly as two of their lieutenants and 18 men were lined up and stripped naked. It was a cashiering, Congo-style. According to their superiors, the punished men had accepted bribes in a plot to overthrow the government. This plot failed, but there are plenty of others going. Again the Congo is rumbling, and Premier Cyrille Adoula is feeling the ground shake under...
...Central Intelligence Agency and other American organizations urged Buddhist leaders to overthrow the government last August; 2) the Vietnamese people had lost confidence in the U.S.; and 3) the war with the Viet Cong would end more quickly if the U.S. sent its advisers home but continued to send cash and arms...
...Communist Goals: "Their aim is to overthrow the way of life free men have chosen for themselves and substitute their own. Their tactics are to undermine, harry and probe weaknesses everywhere, backing up if necessary their probes with force. Today it is the Congo, Laos, Tibet and Cuba. Tomorrow it will be another selection. That is what Mr. Khrushchev calls peaceful coexistence. There is very little peaceful about it except that, with luck, the guns don't fire...
...significance of the overthrow of parity conservation does not require considerable grounding in physics or mathematics to appreciate. I disagree with Mr. Crichton's conclusions concerning the place of parity at the Cambridge High Tables. (CRIMSON Bookshelf, Thursday...
...sense the fault is with scientists who in explaining non-conservation of parity are preoccupied with its sophisticated ramifications. These are undeniably important to other scientists. This preoccupation, however, does cause difficulties in communication with non-scientists and obscures the broader significance of the overthrow of a scientific law. Such an overthrow is most significant to the non-scientist as a lesson in the psychology of science, or more broadly, in the psychology of scholarly inquiry. Joel Tenenbaum...