Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME Essay "The Danger of Playing at Revolution" [March 28] was thoughtful and incisive but irrelevant. It is, of course, absurd to believe that the U.S. Government can be actively overthrown by any combination of New Leftists, Yippies or Black Panthers. But your Essay considers only the classical type of revolution of the French or Russian variety. Certainly other kinds are possible-not only possible but apparently inevitable...
Films of Socialist realism, because they promote a particular ideology, always answer in the affirmative. Womack's answer is less biased, but strangely equivocal. He shows how, when Carranza was overthrown, the remaining Zapatista leaders won pivotal roles in the government of Obregon. The ejido program of the early twenties, which granted previously-claimed land to villages, was a Zapatista victory. The boost given the ejidos by Cárdenas in the thirties nearly satisfied the revolutionary goals of the Morelos villagers...
...either shot or sent into exile. Last week, as rumors of yet an other upheaval continued to pour out of Damascus, the usual signs were ab sent. In fact, the supposed new strong man, Defense Minister Hafiz Assad, even showed up in public with the men he had reportedly overthrown, President Noureddine al Atassi and Baath Party Boss Salah Jadid. What had happened, it seems, was not a coup, but merely a particularly violent debate among Syria's leaders...
...response from a goodly number of Northern Ireland's 1,500,000 people. Indeed, the Marquess of Hamilton, a Unionist who sits in London's House of Commons, may not have been overstating the case when he warned on election eve that "if O'Neill is overthrown, then civil war would stare us right...
...negotiators from Hanoi and the N.L.F. seemed to be moving away from their previously intransigent insistence that the regime of South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu must go. "If the [Saigon] Administration does not change its policy," declared N.L.F. Spokesman Tran Hoai Nam, "it will be overthrown by the people." The implication was that Thieu's government might be an acceptable negotiating partner if it softened its equally stubborn nonrecognition of the N.L.F...