Word: overthrows
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...private. Chinese Reds were even rougher. Communist editors in Hong Kong last week sought out Western newsmen for the first time in years specifically to denounce Khrushchev by name. They revived earlier charges that he had tried to overthrow the Peking regime by destroying blueprints for Chinese economic projects, and complained that Stalin's only mistake was "not killing Khrushchev in the purges." Khrushchev, went the line, is "an amateur Marxist who is betraying the cause with his philosophy of abundance." and is "as jealous of China's growing strength as only a bourgeois woman could...
...markedly. The success of those work stoppages acted like adrenalin on the groups opposing the regime, which had passed a number of years in a wilderness of frustrated possibilities. Representing all conceivable shades of the political spectrum, they have once again begun to consider practical programs aimed at the overthrow or attenuation of the Franco government...
...version being fed to the satellites and neutrals is that Khrushchev really believed on the basis of Soviet intelligence reports that a U.S. invasion of Cuba was imminent. He felt that the Russian people could not bear to witness the overthrow of what they now considered as a reincarnation of their own great 1917 socialist revolution. So, according to the ingenious but preposterous Moscow tale, a careful Russian plan was drawn up to ship the missiles to Cuba without secrecy, install them without camouflage. When Kennedy got word, he would make a fuss, presumably demand negotiations, in which the Russians...
...room to move around in; and in the past few weeks two major events have combined to cramp his person and style badly. Two weeks ago it looked like political events in France were just going to follow their normal pattern: the President was going to overthrow Parliament and radically alter the Constitution. And he did both--but the results of his actions left de Gaulle in an ambiguous situation, in a world far removed from one ruled by the simple alternatives of "oui" and "non" which he favors...
...delusory to say that de Gaulle could have saved himself this possible embarrassment. The chance he took in dissolving Parliament seemed a necessary response to Parliament's overthrow of his hand-picked Pompidou ministry last October 5: they couldn't do this to him. But what was a chance last week looks more like a dangerous gamble today; for the referendum result coming right after the Parliamentary upset indicates that the political initiative has been taken away from de Gaulle. He can no longer stand in his favorite pose of the implacable father, sternly watching his children...