Word: embargoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Self-control was not the Pope's solution. "There are necessary limitations to the freedom of the press," he said. "And these limitations should be strictly determined on the basis of law." Beyond that, the Pope proposed an embargo by offended Catholic readers: "Do not buy, do not believe, do not favor, and do not even mention this perverted press...
...merely reacting, has lately done so intelligently. A Caribbean arms embargo coupled with an obvious show of patience toward Cuba has taken any hemisphere-wide punch out of Castro's anti-Yankee tirades. Current U.S. investment policies are increasingly based on partnership (see below). The Inter-American Bank, mostly U.S. financed, will be in business just as soon as the remaining 18 of the 20 Latin American countries cough up their donations...
...deep reverence for civilian, representative, constitutional government"). But the longer Castro ruled, the more critical became Dubois, and Castro's Cuba lashed furiously back at him. Last September the National Federation of Gastronomic Workers ordered Havana waiters not to serve Dubois food or drink. Dubois took the ineffectual embargo (lifted after four weeks) in stride. Scoffed he: "I'll bring my own sandwiches." Next, barbers in Pinar del Rio province refused to cut Dubois's hair. That did not bother him; he hasn't much hair anyhow...
...Peking. But with the savage repression of the Tibetan revolt, and deliberate provocation of India, Southeast Asians were taking seriously the threat of "yellow imperialism." Burma, which had formerly refused U.S. aid, now recoiled at the thought of loans from Peking. Thailand's Marshal Sarit had placed an embargo on imports from Red China and Malaya closed down two Red Chinese banks as centers of smuggling and espionage. And though India's Nehru, true to his nature, continued to vacillate, hostility toward Red China was rampant among the Indian masses...
Next time I go to Cuba, I'll bring my own sandwiches." Flying down to Havana at week's end, presumably without sandwiches, intrepid Correspondent Dubois ran headfirst into the embargo. At the Habana Hilton, bellhops refused to carry his bags and the waiters refused to serve him. Undismayed, Dubois dropped in at his favor ite restaurant. La Zaragozana, dined on bootleg paella (fish, chicken, rice) served by union members who amiably pretended they did not recognize their guest...