Word: anti-communist
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...Communism." Over the past five years, the U.S. has spent $2 billion to that end in South Viet Nam, but it has not been enough. Harkins' appointment as commanding general of the newly created U.S. Military Assistance Command is the first step in a more broadly based anti-Communist campaign. With a staff of 200, Harkins takes over an advisory and supply service manned by 4,500 U.S. soldiers (soon to be boosted to 7,000). His units range from war dogs for patrol duty to medical outfits to U.S. fleet units in the coastal waters, which will intercept...
...divisions among patriotic. anti-Communist Vietnamese, which are no secret to anyone here," said Nolting, "are in my judgment a great barrier to your country's progress and a real danger to your country's survival." Conceding that Diem was taking his own sweet time in instituting reforms, Nolting said that he agreed "to a certain extent" with those Vietnamese who complain that "the real benefits of a free society are not getting through to the people." But he also praised Diem's "dedicated and courageous leadership," added that reforms "could be accomplished relatively quickly if only...
...ZARO PEÑA, 61, Secretary General of the Cuban Labor Confederation (C.T.C.). A mulatto tobacco worker who was born in Havana and joined the Communist Party in 1930, Peña called a Havana convention of workers' organizations from all over Cuba in 1939 to form the C.T.C. For eight uninterrupted years, Peña and his fellow Communists controlled the confederation. But in 1947 anti-Communist Labor Minister Carlos Prío Socorrás began a campaign to oust Peña and his fellow Reds from control of Cuba's labor movement...
...defeat dropped the Communists to second place in parliament, topped by Kekkonen's Agrarians, who were able to gain six seats for a new total of 53. A more serious loss was suffered by the fellow-traveling Independent Socialists: twelve of their 14 representatives were defeated. The strongly anti-Communist Social Democrats picked up only one seat for a new parliamentary total of 38. Net: a one-vote leftist majority was replaced by a 13-vote majority of centrists, which promised to free Finland from years of legislative paralysis...
Arriving in Quito, Ecuador's Foreign Minister faced expulsion from his strongly anti-Communist party. In Rio the anti-Castro press was in an uproar and a group of Deputies wanted to haul Foreign Minister Francisco San Thiago Dantas on the carpet to explain himself. Nowhere was the clamor louder than in Argentina, where the outraged leaders of the three military services threatened to overturn the government of President Arturo Frondizi...