Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newly slenderized (from 215 to 191 Ibs.) for the fray, Michael Vincent Di Salle, 50, former mayor of Toledo and onetime price stabilization chief, is raring to do what he just missed doing in 1956: beat the Republicans' low-gear, low-key C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, 42. During an undistinguished first term, Billy O'Neill demonstrated nothing so much as a knack for ruffling the feathers of party roosters, e.g., by trying-vainly-to kick out influential Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Chairman A. L. De Maioribus, and by failing to mention anyone else on the state...
Others in his government, notably Chief of the General Staff "Tiger" Wang and Defense Minister Yu Ta-wei, counseled patience and restraint. The U.S. launched the Warsaw talks, and Chiang, who privately viewed the talks with undisguised distrust, agreed to wait until they had proved a success or had conclusively failed...
...ordeal and the Warsaw talks showed no progress, Chiang's attitude hardened. The last advocate of restraint among his advisers had fallen silent. Chiang reportedly urged his case in a series of lunches and meetings in Taipei with U.S. Ambassador Everett Drumwright, Admiral Harry Felt, commander in chief of U.S. Forces in the Pacific, and Vice Admiral Roland Smoot, U.S. commander in the Formosa area...
Chiang's statements have a basis in fact. The Communists themselves have broadcast evidence of restiveness-although so far they have always been able to control it. Last January Lo Jui-ching, chief of Red China's secret police, casually admitted that in the preceding two years his men had found it necessary to investigate 18 million workers for "counterrevolutionary thoughts," had smashed 3,000 "revolutionary cliques" and uncovered 100,000 active counter-revolutionaries-5,000 of them in the Communist Party itself...
That night Chehab's army cracked down as it never had when Chehab was merely army chief, charged with upholding the authority of the Chamoun government. Troops were ordered to shoot armed civilians on sight. Army patrols shot and killed two men who pulled guns to stop a car in the Moslem quarter. Phalange Chief Pierre Gemayel hastily announced he was all for peace...