Word: anticommunists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secret police, suppressing all opposition, packing the prisons. Close to 300,000 Paraguayans now live in exile. At Stroessner's Colorado party headquarters in the Asuncion capital, functionaries keep IBM listings on everyone who applies for party membership; there are 400,000 names on file. Stroessner is staunchly antiCommunist, but beyond that he does not concern himself with ideology. When a visitor once suggested that Paraguay needed a first-class public relations man to improve its image abroad, the general replied: "We don't need publicity. We will show them by doing...
After holding Finnish Cabinet posts ranging from Premier to Foreign Minister, Economist Tuomioja became the Conservative candidate for President in 1956, but lost to Urho Kekkonen. Though antiCommunist, he is married to the daughter of Hella Wuolijoki, a Finnish Communist playwright best known to the U.S. as the author of The Farmer's Daughter, which was made into a 1947 movie and is currently a U.S. television series...
Castro Reconsidered. Paz and Barrientos together could well reshape Bolivian politics. Over the past two years, while striving to put the near-bankrupt nation on a solid economic footing, Paz has drawn away from his more radical advisers. Barrientos, the only political figure since the revolution who is outspokenly antiCommunist, argues that the government should break off diplomatic relations with Cuba. If he has his way, Bolivia's decision to sever ties with Castro might lead to new consideration of such action by some or all of the other four hemisphere holdouts: Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay...
...biggest reception came two days later when McNamara, Lodge and Khanh carried the show to the northern city of Hue, only 55 miles from the Red North Viet Nam border. At the airport the party was almost swept off its feet by antiCommunist, placard-waving students (BOB, NO MORE BAY OF PIGS...
...Latin American leftists and rabid ultranationalists. President Roberto F. Chiari, his most influential ministers and all major candidates in the May 10 presidential elections are members of a deeply entrenched elite that has ruled Panama since it proclaimed independence from Colombia in 1903. They are wealthy, well educated, antiCommunist, vigorously competing among themselves for power-and finding the widely resented canal treaty an ideal target to call attention away from their own position...