Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sadly, Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky complained: "The Congress is not the sort of organization I believe will benefit the Federation. You can't fight extremism with extremism with any hope of success." But the fact was that Welensky's own policy of "partnership"-i.e., a policy of advancing the Negro, but so slowly that the whites will hardly notice -has satisfied no one. If the Dr. Bandas wanted an end to the Central African federation, so apparently did Southern Rhodesia's whites. In the last territorial election they gave a majority of their votes...
...charge may well provoke a wry smile in Frondizi -for he thinks that the U.S., far from "buying" any Latin American, neglects its obligations to its neighbors. Saying so, diplomatically but succinctly, to Congress and the press was his major mission as he visited the U.S. And even as he served as his people's advocate, his government had to fight back his misguided opponents at home...
...Peronistas traveled to a strategy rendezvous with exiled Strongman Juan Peron in the Dominican Republic, worked out plans for a strike-and-riot attack against Frondizi. Returning to Buenos Aires, they put it into effect three days before Frondizi flew north. The trigger was a Frondizi bill, passed by Congress, giving the government permission to sell or lease a featherbedded, government-owned meatpacking plant. Workers at the plant listened to a harangue by a top Peronista, then chained the gate and barricaded themselves in. Frondizi did not hesitate. Using a Sherman tank as a battering ram, his troops marched...
...being welcomed to Washington by the Eisenhowers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the strike began to ease. Shops removed their shutters; factories reopened. The victory was Frondizi's. He quickly wrote off the win as a consolidation of his austere leadership, and rose before a joint session of the U.S. Congress to have his say about a proper attitude for the U.S. toward Latin America. "Peoples that are poor and without hope," he told a well-filled House chamber, "are not free peoples. A stagnant and impoverished country cannot uphold democratic institutions. On the contrary, it is fertile soil for anarchy...
...inhaler intended only for clearing stuffy noses. But if its active chemical ingredient, amphetamine, is dissolved and injected into a vein, it packs a wallop. Last week the abuse of amphetamine was growing so fast that it had the Kansas City police, Missouri legislators, federal officials, even the U.S. Congress seriously concerned...