Word: outbursts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Guinea what Sekou Touré says goes. His political control is so tight and his followers so quick to violence and intimidation that even French observers gloomily expect Guinea to vote no by more than 90%. Yet his outburst was as unexpected as it was final. Some blamed it on a personality clash that occurred on De Gaulle's visit to Conakry last month. Angered by Sekou Touré's public criticism of the new constitution, De Gaulle refused to dine with the Guinean Premier. More important, probably, is Touré's vaulting ambition...
Astonished by his own outburst, Ernest Wilkins, 64, escaped to his office without ever having had his resignation formally accepted. That left Eisenhower aides, aware their problem was politically delicate because Wilkins is a Negro, still trying to decide what to do about his resignation. At his press conference last week, President Eisenhower hesitated, finally indicated there had been no decision. Said the President: "I have never urged him to [resign], nor asked him to, nor anything else. I have had a very-as a matter of fact, very-congenial talk with him." Most likely outcome: Wilkins will stay...
...whip up a sense of crisis, Communist agitators marshaled massive demonstrations against U.S. and British embassies behind the Iron Curtain. In a violent outburst of a kind unseen since the Bolshevik Revolution 40 years ago, 100,000 Muscovites marched on the ten-story U.S. embassy building in Tchaikovsky Street, smashed its front windows in a barrage of stones, bricks and green ink. Far to the east in Peking, half a million men and women marched through the night making a racket for no Americans to hear...
Back in Bloom. The response was an outburst of fury unparalleled since the Hungarian revolt itself. Italian Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella withdrew his nation's Minister to Budapest, refused to consent to the appointment of a new Hungarian Minister to Rome. In Montevideo students hurled a gasoline bomb at the Soviet embassy, and Russian missions in New Zealand, Bonn, Istanbul and Copenhagen were all stoned. (As a countermeasure, the Russians permitted a carefully stage-managed crowd to break seven windows in the Danish embassy in Moscow...
Fighting back, Kennedy called a joint press conference with New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives, labeled Mitchell's outburst "completely inaccurate and irresponsible." With war declared, other Republicans charged in. armed to the teeth with amendments. On the Senate floor, a bill that had seemed to be headed for a quiet passage ran into the noisiest partisan brawl of the session...