Word: overthrowing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...people were not keen to support him. Now that the Serbs have overthrown Milosevic, they'll probably turn to the West, which has a lot more to offer than Russia does. So there's a danger in Putin's strategy that when all of these countries open up and overthrow their dictators, they're all going to turn back to the West. What will Putin do then...
...metaphor debated frequently throughout the film. The twist ending of this film, a trick that Shyamalan became famous for in The Sixth Sense both supports and distorts the metaphor, and leaves the viewer unsure about whether the ending is an attempt to make a profound statement or overthrow any sense of seriousness...
...been ordered by one of Washington's closest allies. And that's just one of the more startling revelations in the latest collection of documents released by the CIA. The agency on Monday declassified the third in a series of documents that detail the U.S.'s role in the overthrow of Chile's democratically elected president in 1973 and Washington's subsequent support for the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. The papers demonstrate that the American government acted in full knowledge of the dictatorship's systematic and bloody abuse of human rights. The CIA was ordered by President Clinton...
...intelligence agencies' gathering information about U.S. citizen Frank Teruggi (including his Chilean address), who was later detained at his home by Pinochet's security forces, taken to Santiago's National Stadium and summarily executed. But such individual instances point to a broader pattern of support for efforts to overthrow an elected leftist government - President Nixon tells a National Security Council meeting in 1972 that "we must do everything we can to bring down Allende." And previously released documents point to U.S. government efforts to support the Pinochet junta despite mounting congressional criticism of its human rights record...
...union boilermaker, Steele was passing out newsletters for the Revolutionary Communist Party. He said the only way to affect real change is to "overthrow the system...