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Convicted in 1949 under the terms of the Smith Act for conspiring to overthrow the government by violent means, Hall jumped ball and fled to Mexico. He was deported in 1951 and later served five years in jail for the Smith Act violation and for contempt of court...
...chairman of the Communist party in the Carolinas, Scales was convicted in April, 1955, under section 7 of the Smith Act, which makes it a crime to be a "knowing member" of an organization advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government. Federal Judge Albert V. Bryan imposed a six year prison term...
Best chances for the opposition is in the state assemblies (see map). In Rajasthan, the Swatantra and Jana Sangh could topple the Congress leadership, and in West Bengal a leftist front could overthrow Congress. In the Punjab a Sikh separate language party threatens Congress for control of the Assembly. In Mysore, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, Congress may lose some seats. In Parliament its victory is beyond question, though the opposition parties may win as many as 200 of the 494 seats...
Last week Iran's powerful landowners struck back. In the classic ploy by which extreme right and left wings join forces to overthrow a moderate regime, the reactionary landlords hitched up with the Communist-infiltrated National Front Party in an attempt to bring down Amini's regime by mob violence...
...where half the population is under 18 and the new middle class is bitterly disaffected by the nation's erratic, corruption-stunted progress toward democracy. At one point, Amini picked up the phone and told a fellow landowner: "I know you've spent $75,000 trying to overthrow me. Please continue, and I'll clap you in jail." Said a Teheran politico: "If Amini had wavered for a moment, he'd have fallen...