Word: violent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report passed through the censorship of Egypt, now engaged in a violent propaganda war with Iraq. The sketchy account provided few details. But if the report is true, it could foretoken a new cold war explosion over the Middle East...
Castro made it clear that no rule of law was involved; his bloody vengeance was fully justified. The trouble was the way "enemies" used it to "slander" Cuba. "Never has such an intense and violent campaign of discredit against Cuba been waged throughout the Americas. We must deprive the enemy of his principal weapon of attack." When would "the proceedings" end? Not, apparently, last week. Before Castro's firing squads went another 28 Batista men, bringing the grand total to 451. Among the new dead: the first judge, Arístides Pérez Andreu, president of Batista...
...reaction to your story on Bolivia [March 2] was more violent but otherwise in line with the response to similar factual descriptions of the Bolivian situation. A year ago Senator Theodore Green and I were bitterly attacked in La Paz for a speech in the Senate and for an article, respectively. I served as fiscal adviser to the Bolivian government on a special U.S. mission in 1956-57. I returned with the conviction that a continuation of U.S. aid policies would lead to further economic and social deterioration and disaster. Privately, most of the U.S. technicians in Bolivia will confirm...
...Continent repercussions were even more violent. Macmillan's misadventure, said Rome's Il Messaggero, proved that "it is impossible to come to an understanding with Soviet leaders of Khrushchev's type." The Adenauer and De Gaulle governments, leary about the trip in the first place, were distressed by the harshness of Khrushchev's action...
Response to the article (the quotation about "abolishing Bolivia" appeared only in the local Latin American edition) was swift and violent: La Paz got annoyed, students got riled up, President Hernan Siles Zuazo (in the drab, grey palace where he is guarded constantly by an unmanned machine gun) got worried, 10,000 copies of Time got burned, the American embassy got attacked. Summoned from Secretary Dulles' cloud chamber at Walter Reed Army Hospital, temporarisecretary Chris Herter, a genially proper Bostonian, expressed hope that "a magazine would not be permitted to disturb the traditionally good relations that have existed between...