Word: anger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. Offering no excuses, he took personal blame for the disaster even though he had inherited the plan from the Eisenhower Administration. But TIME has been told by credible sources that Kennedy did not accept the defeat all that gracefully. In anger, he and his brother Robert, then Attorney General, covertly ordered agencies of the U.S. Government to find some sure means of deposing Fidel Castro, Cuba's chief of state...
Normally, such a pro-Palestinian move would anger Israel, but Jerusalem largely ignored it. Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government was relieved that Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had agreed at their Vienna meeting to delay any reconvening of the Geneva talks until autumn. One Foreign Ministry spokesman said: "This will relieve the pressure and allow a politically useful and militarily quiet summer...
Next Door. Still, some U.S. analysts believed that relations would be strained only temporarily. In their view, the Thais were making a show of deep anger, partially to placate the Cambodians. As the Bangkok World explained, "If the Cambodians decide to retaliate, what can they do? They cannot attack America, so the natural target must be Thailand, right next door." The Thais have traditionally kept their independence by skillfully accommodating their policies to whatever foreign nation wielded the most power in Southeast Asia (see THE WORLD). Suggested one U.S. Government foreign policy analyst: "It is better for them...
...Such anger from Bangkok-one of Washington's best friends in Asia since the end of World War II-underscores the extent to which the Thais have been stunned by the fall of the non-Communist governments in Cambodia and South Viet Nam and the current turbulence in Laos. Thailand sent soldiers to fight in South Viet Nam, and 25,000 U.S. servicemen and 350 American military aircraft are still based on Thai soil. But the Thais, who share 1,000 miles of common border with Laos and Cambodia, have suddenly found themselves surrounded by hostile forces. Accordingly, they...
...writers and journalists had access to the media recently freed from censorship). The philosopher Ivan Svitak was calling for workers' councils while Martin Vaculik, the author of The Axe (Harper and Row), published his famous 2000-word manifesto, a political program for the whole country, which was greatly to anger Mr. Brezhnev...