Word: butchered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...African Butcher." Only France seemed to get pleasure out of its big bang. Japan and Morocco prepared formal protests. From Nasser's United Arab Republic came the cry: "The government which has acted as a butcher in Algeria is now trying to act as a butcher for all Africa." Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of the West African state of Ghana dramatically ordered the freezing of French assets (estimated at $14 million) until possible effects of the explosion on the Ghanaian population are known. Nigeria found it necessary to post security guards around the French embassy...
Stepping up the attack, Castro's newspaper, Revolución, described Vice President Nixon as "an impenitent disciple of the gloomy and obstinate Foster Dulles." The paper denounced President Eisenhower for having "embraced the butcher Franco" on his recent trip to Spain. Philip Bonsai, the U.S.'s popular Ambassador to Cuba, was a different problem: Cubans have lately been cheering him in the newsreels. "How debased are those who applaud Bonsai!" said Revolución. "What an inconceivable alliance-Bonsai, Lojendio, the traitors, the war criminals, the big landowners and the thieves...