Word: overthrows
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Military Initiative. The most conspicuous of the Philippines' difficulties are caused by the Communist-led Huks, peasant insurgents who are trying to overthrow the government. Philippine army intelligence says it has definitely identified only 6,000 armed Huks and another 4,000 who serve as reinforcements, propagandists and supply troops. More ominous is an official estimate that 60% to 70% of the peasants in Huk areas are supporting the rebels, who now operate in 18 of the 24 provinces of Luzon as well as on a few of the smaller islands...
Died. W. W. Yen (Yen Hunching), 73, Chinese elder statesman and onetime Prime Minister (1924-26) of the Republic of China; in Shanghai. After the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty by Sun Yat-sen in 1911, frail, U.S.-educated Dr. Yen served as a diplomat to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. He came out of retirement last year to head an unofficial four-man mission to Peking which tried unsuccessfully to make peace with the Communists...
...serving his one-year (plus $1,000 fine) sentence for contempt of Congress. Dennis protested that it wasn't fair to jail him while he was busy appealing two other sentences which he had incurred since: five years and a $10,000 fine for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government, and six months for contempt of court for his disruptive conduct while defending himself against the conspiracy charge. Federal Judge David A. Pine turned him down. "Litigation at some time must come to an end," said the judge. "The time for the law to take effect...
...first two cases in the series have just been released--Robert Boyle's Experiments in Pneumatics and The Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory. Case three, Early Development of the Concept of Temperature and Heat, edited by Professor Duane Roller of Wabash College, will be published in a fortnight...
Alexandro Feodorovich Kerensky, social revolutionist who helped overthrow the Czar in 1917, intends to reveal "the real object of the Kremlins international policy" in an address at the New Lecture Hall on April 21 at 8 p.m., John H. Mansfield '51, chairman of the United Nations Council announced yesterday...