Word: anathemae
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...based in Algiers, ordered exiles to stop their political activities or leave the country. As if to prove his good intentions last week, the government newspaper El Moudja-hid published long front-page tributes to Upper Volta and the Ivory Coast, two of the African countries whose moderation was anathema to Ben Bella. One of Boumedienne's motives, of course, was to win support for the rescheduled Afro-Asia Summit Conference in Algiers, which was postponed two months ago when Ben Bella was toppled from power. The new target date now is Nov. 5, and Boumedienne...
...same time, the Organization of American States became anathema to the rebels when an OAS committee reported that their ranks were infiltrated with Reds. And while the junta welcomed the OAS, the rebels rolled out their Red carpet for the United Nations, which, with U.S. acquiescence, sent special envoys to Santo Domingo. This was the first time that the U.N. had directly interceded in hemispheric affairs, and it established a precedent that vastly disturbed...
...Ford was a group of rebels, including Wisconsin's Mel Laird, chairman of the G.O.P. Convention's Platform Committee at San Francisco, who went after the chairmanship of the Republican House caucus. It was a bitter fight, complicated by the fact that Conservatives Ford and Laird are anathema to some liberal Republicans. In a fit of pique, New York's John Lindsay actually backed Halleck. But Ford and Laird won. What did Ford think about Johnson's chances of getting his program through? Said he: "They certainly have adequate numbers of Democrats to put through everything...
...Nazi victory that he even objected to Americans' enlisting in the British armed forces-on the grounds that Hitler might retaliate by shooting all U.S. citizens when he occupied London. By the time he resigned in 1940, Kennedy had worn out his welcome in England and was anathema to the New Deal at home...
...month ago he was anathema: the Yellow Peril, the shameless Pervert of True Marxism-Leninism, the terrible Trotskyite Deviationist and Splitter. Last week, as he stood bundled in a greatcoat and karakul cap atop Lenin's Tomb watching the rockets roll by, Red China's Chou En-lai presumably was still all these things to the fallen Nikita Khrushchev, who was nowhere to be seen, and possibly to many other Russians who have little love for the Chinese. But officially he was the honored guest from the great fraternal Chinese People's Republic, and this just three...