Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rapport with students, Young is far from being a pliant tool of protesters. During one heated, profanity-filled meeting with some student rebels, he suddenly snapped: "I don't have to listen to that kind of language" and walked out. Quick in temper, Young is also quick to clamp down on undergraduate activities that go too far. After a fraternity held a party that barred Negroes and Mexican Americans, Young suspended it from the campus. In the face of a massive student revolt, he says, "I wouldn't hesitate a moment to call in the police...
...expected to join the revolution, did not respond: "The mass of peasants does not help us at all and has become informers." Che watched some of his most loyal followers fall in combat, get separated from others and cut off from supplies by the army's ever-tightening clamp. "This type of struggle gives us the opportunity not only to turn ourselves into revolutionaries, the highest level of the human species, but it also allows us to graduate as men," he wrote on Aug. 8, still confident of victory. Two weeks later, his tone had changed: "The situation is becoming...
There is also a worldwide clamp on capital flow acrosrnational borders. This trend is doubly disturbing because foreign capital is usually targeted on strategic investment projects and provides a particular fillip. The $7.2 billion that Europeans invested in the U.S. up to 1914 financed most of the nation's railroads and canals, and many of its oilfields and mines; the $12.8 billion that the U.S. sent in Marshall Plan aid rebuilt much of postwar Europe. Now, to fight the battle of the balance of payments, the world's two major exporters of capital-the U.S. and Britain-have...
COMMUNISTS often try to identify their program with nationalism, but that identification is usually most complete during revolutions, before the party has unveiled its programs and alienated sizable groups of the populace. The DLD is known to be having trouble with its intelligentsia, which is still smarting from the clamp-down which followed a brief period of academic liberalization in 1955. This new period of truncated revolution that U.S. bombing has brought about is giving the DLD a rare chance to bind old wounds...
Continental bondmen fear that Washington will soon clamp down on convertible issues. Many European investors, they report, are simply selling their American stocks to raise cash to buy such bonds. Such sales siphon dollars abroad, and the U.S. can ill afford the extra drain on its balance of payments...