Word: afters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ complaint from Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, who said after a tour of Latin America that the U.S. appoints too many do-nothing committees.*
"I shall insist on discipline with a capital D," declared Wijayananda Dahanayake when he became Prime Minister of Ceylon after the assassination of his predecessor, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. But soon Dahanayake was surrounded by chaos with a capital C. Hardly had Bandaranaike been buried when dark rumors spread that colleagues of...
Stop & Start. The main theme of criticism is that the U.S. merely reacts to events-"stop-and-start" diplomacy, Capehart calls it-rather than taking imaginative initiative. One example of policy drift was Panama, where the U.S. was hastening to make concessions after a series of riots. Other examples: the...
Chosen by political insiders, the President of Mexico is a kind of surprise package that the electorate gets to know well only after he takes office. Last week, as Mexico City's avidly progovernment press marked the first anniversary in office of Adolfo LÓpez Mateos with editorials...
LÓpez Mateos' conservative streak showed through, too, in his tough dealings with labor, notably in crushing a railroad strike and jailing the leaders for indefinite terms. More surprising, LÓpez Mateos has shed the suspicious isolationism traditional to Mexican Presidents. After a friendly trip to the...