Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suleyman Demirel, 41, is a hardheaded peasant's son, a construction engineer who once worked with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, later amassed a private fortune as an Ankara contractor. He inherited the party and prestige of Turkey's slain strongman, Adnan Menderes, and adroitly harnessed the demirkirat, or iron grey horse, which was the symbol of Menderes' Democratic Party, for his own Justice Party...
...addition to Scott's on-the-spot perspectives, we had the benefit of research from our Caribbean bureau in Miami and the Latin American desk in our Washington bureau, which monitor Cuban radio broadcasts, read the press, interview refugees and diplomats coming out of Cuba. Bureaus and stringers throughout Latin America concentrated on one meaningful aspect of the story: the extent of Castroite subversion in other parts of the hemisphere. With the help of these reports, Writer Philip Osborne and Senior Editor George Daniels fashioned their study of Cuba's decaying revolution-and continuing capacity for mischief...
...civil rights worker, Detroit Housewife Viola Liuzzo; Wilkins, whose trial in the same courtroom ended in a hung jury, will return there for retrial this month. Near him sat Alabama Grand Dragon Robert Creel and a muscular, crew-cut man portentously identified as chief of the K.B.I.-the Klan Bureau of Investigation...
...government announced the formation of a new party leadership, and Guevara's name was notably absent from the list. In place of the old national directorate, of which Guevara was a top-ranking member, the party created a new secretariat, central committee and a higher-level political bureau that will serve as the party's principal executive council. As one U.S. expert puts it: "Castro is now willing to go down the line with the Russians...
...Bureau. Nowhere does the decay show more vividly than in Fidel Castro himself. The old Castro was a swinger, an extrovert who enjoyed yakking with Western newsmen or moving along the embassy cocktail circuit. He gunned around town in a souped-up Oldsmobile, showing up everywhere for spur-of-the-moment rallies, TV talkathons, hilarious games of beisbol in Havana's public parks, spearfishing at Varadero beach and interminable gabfests with the students at Havana University, where he would often hold court until 4 or 5 a.m. No more. Today's Fidel Castro has a dull, grey look...