Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Harvard has not been the center for the coordination of violent activity for the eventual overthrow of a government. As far as I know, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 has not been stockpiling rocks, molotov cocktails and knives. President Derek C. Bok has not been urging students never to relent in a "holy struggle" against "the Zionist entity...
...seek the death penalty for their leaders. As the insurgents were led away from army headquarters, a crowd chanted, "To the wall!" -- meaning that the rebels should be lined up against a wall and shot. While there was no guarantee that a military minority would not try again to overthrow Argentina's fragile democracy, Menem had reason to be cheered by the support his actions had elicited from both his countrymen and his allies...
...protest organizer, who identified himself as a member of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, said that the group included a wide variety of people holding diverse political views. The organizer, Karl Adam, said he was opposed to the U.S. presence in the Gulf because of a desire to "overthrow this whole program of U.S. imperialism and capitalism...
...after 12 months, 15 months, an embargo will indeed begin to "bite." If applied for long enough, the will of the Iraqis to resist will decline steadily, the chances of Hussein's overthrow will rise and the potential impact of a desperate Iraqi attack anywhere will be less and less. Withdrawal from Kuwait and submission to other terms--e.g. the dismantling of nuclear development projects--should follow with capitulation...
...Many saw her as a veritable mater dolorosa. As devout a Roman Catholic as Chamorro, Aquino was irreproachable at the beginning of her presidency. The fearsome insurgency, led by the communist New People's Army, lost steam in the face of her saintliness. The military plotters who threatened to overthrow her were seen as thugs...