Word: bayonetted
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...Bayonet Point. Though it is still the only truly effective party in a "guided democracy," P.R.I. has awakened to the fact that its heavy-handed rule is more and more resented by Mexico's increasingly literate (66% ) and prospering electorate. The politicians got the word soon after Gustavo Diaz Ordaz' inauguration as President last December. A stern moralist ap palled by mismanagement and corruption in the government, Diaz picked eloquent, hard-driving Carlos Madrazo, 49, to head P.R.I. and rid it of crookedness and caciquismo (bossism...
...holders to scrap a constitutional provision restricting Congressmen to a single term. To infuse a "new mystique and a new militancy," Madrazo has set up three committees of distinguished citizens to advise P.R.I. on political, social and economic issues. "These groups," he says, "will be the tip of a bayonet pressing against our throats...
...commanders had hesitated until the last moment to use force to quell the riots since they wanted to avoid making martyrs. Late in the week, faced with a real chance that Communist-led mobs might take over Saigon, the government finally rushed in paratroopers, who cleared the streets at bayonet point. Buddhist and Catholic leaders issued statements disclaiming responsibility for any further riots. About all Washington spokesmen could do was to assure everyone again that "there is absolutely no chance that we will pull out of Viet...
...peace-keeping force took a few aggressive steps. U.N. posts, manned by Swedish troops, were set up between the lines of the Turkish Cypriot defenders of Kokkina and the Greek Cypriot besiegers on the mountainside. Canadian, Finnish and Danish U.N. troops, moving forward with the bayonet, dismantled Turkish Cypriot gun positions that menaced a U.N. headquarters near Nicosia...
...Jack Warden) knows it. "You think this whole stinkin' war has just got one purpose-to knock you off," he sneers. First day ashore, the purpose is almost achieved. A Japanese sniper wings the private and then moves in for the kill. But when the private sees the bayonet he goes beast, and when he comes to his senses again the sniper has been reduced to sukiyaki. "That was close, wasn't it?" the sergeant sniggers softly in the private's ear. "And now you feel guilty because you found out you like to kill...