Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Haiti. President François Duvalier last week felt himself so threatened by the forces of discontent in his poverty-stricken republic that he expelled the highest-ranking Roman Catholic churchman in the country, an archbishop, on the odd charge of encouraging "Communist student revolutionaries."
Paradoxically, Ikeda's left-wing Socialist foes also gained, increasing their Diet seats from 122 to 145. But all 23 of their new seats were taken from the middle-roading Democratic Socialists, who until they broke away a year ago had belonged to the Socialist Party anyway. Big losers...
At week's end, as Tokyo fish markets did a roaring trade in fresh sea bream, the traditional Japanese presents to newlyweds and election victors, Ikeda reminded the world that he had campaigned on a solidly pro-U.S. platform. Said he with satisfaction: "The Socialist Party has no...
Fidel Castro's one-man brain trust, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, last week lectured 5,000 Red Chinese in Peking on how the Marxist blessings of Castro Cuba can be carried to country after country throughout the rest of Latin America. "It is," he said coldly, "through arming the people...
The man at the nozzle is Fidel Castro. Subjected to Castro's purposeful troublemaking and his example, old wrongs throughout Latin America took on fresh passion. Castro has claimed all Latin American discontent and injustice for his own, and though not all dissenters march under Castro's banner...