Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...waters. As it was, the Chinese and Russians seemed to be roiling the waters quite enough on their own. The on-and-off propaganda war between Moscow and Peking was on again, in full force. Peking condemned the "Soviet revisionist renegade clique." In the Soviet Union's angriest attack on China since the border talks began, Tass accused the Chinese of "fanning chauvinist sentiments and military psychosis...
Gradual Ban. Partly out of indifference, partly because of some real difficulties, Ankara and Paris have been slow to attack the heroin problem. Under the 1961 United Nations convention on narcotic drugs, Turkey is one of eight countries permitted to export opium poppies for medical purposes. Some 70,000 farmers, most of them supporters of the ruling Justice Party, count on the opium produce for at least some of their earnings. The government pays $5 a pound, though many growers sell part or all of their crops on the black market for as much as five times the official price...
Died. James Edwards, 51, black actor who gained fame in Home of the Brave (1949), one of the first Hollywood productions to recognize and deal openly with the theme of American racism; of a heart attack; in San Diego. In the movie Edwards portrayed a black G.I. hospitalized by a wartime mental breakdown, examining his feelings toward the three whites-one hopelessly bigoted -who accompanied him on the traumatic mission in the Pacific. On Broadway he played in Deep Are the Roots and accumulated other notable credits for his screen roles in Bright Victory, Member of the Wedding, The Caine...
...Died. John B. Hynes, 72, Massachusetts Democrat who in 1949 defeated James M. Curley for mayor of Boston to finish off one of the nation's most powerful big-city machines; of a heart attack; in Boston. First appointed acting mayor by the Governor and the state legislature for five months in 1947 while Curley was in jail, Hynes defeated the Boston boss in his own right two years later; he went on to serve until 1960, giving the city good, honest government and inaugurating a vast, urgently needed urban-renewal program...
...deny with all the irony and passion still left to him that he was in fact in the service of a foreign country. That this denial was in Merleau-Ponty's account, so difficult to make, is a measure of the desperation of the old Bolsheviks facing Stalin's attack. Their intentions, they believed, had joined them to the enemies of the Revolution, and it must have seemed that to say aloud that their intention was not that at all, would be an attempt to deny their guilt. And who, after all, would care if their revolutionary honor, in Merleau...