Word: without
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...twelve of the new nations eased into independence without the convulsive birth spasms that racked the infant Belgian Congo Republic. Premier Debre promised to sponsor them in their candidacy for the United Nations. Echoing the leaders of the other states, all of whom will remain "associated" with the Community to reap its economic and political advantages, Gabon's Premier Leon M'Ba said: "You can count on Gabon's remaining with France for better or worse...
...silent partner, a Guatemalan colonel named Carlos Castillo Armas launched his counter-revolutionary invasion of the Red-dominated country. As F-47s swooped down over Guatemala City with U.S. pilots at the controls, Guevara dashed blindly around town trying to organize a resistance force. When Arbenz caved in without a fight, Guevara's wounded idealism and urge to do battle combined with his strong dislike of the U.S. to become a deep and deadly hatred...
...recruits needed to learn tactics and discipline, Che taught them. When a school was needed to teach peasants to read and write, Che organized it. If a situation called for a revolution ary expert, Che knew how it had been done in Bolivia or Guatemala. Through the long evenings, without ever appearing to contradict, Che encouraged Castro's leftism, planted the seeds of a deep-cutting and basic grab for power...
...cable, screwdrivers, electric motors, hinges, light bulbs, farm machines, printing presses, office equipment, medical instruments. The deal also included a barter exchange-sugar, the nation's major export, for oil, the major import. To refine the Russian crude, Che seized the three foreign refineries-Shell, Esso and Texaco-without compensation...
...name talent has so far rubbed together in the dry Reno air without producing any rope burns. Known to be just as explosive as Marilyn, Montgomery Clift was variously happy, snide, exploding with nervous laughter, once fell to the ground and rolled with joy on seeing some old friends. Drinking whisky and Seven-Up with assorted cowboys, making an elaborate do about picking up their speech and mannerisms, Clift spent his week looking forward to a chartered flight to Los Angeles, where he would see his favorite singer, Ella Fitzgerald; the producer called it "Monty's little treat...