Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Security Council could find no way, for instance, to stamp out powder trains like the one that was sputtering in the Balkans.Twenty Soviet vetoes in a year and a half had left the Council feeling both impotent and irritable. Russia refused to meet the majority on plans to control the atomic bomb...
...dramatic that henceforth only the willfully unrealistic could fail to see it. The protagonists were Secretary of State George Marshall and the spokesman of the Russian delegation, Soviet Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Andrei Yanuarevich Vishinsky. The ultimate issue was peace v. eventual war. The immediate struggle was for control of the soapbox-for that, the Russians had demonstrated, was how they thought of U.N. The question was: How could the peace-loving nations prevent the Russians from using this potential focus of power and international moral rostrum to keep the nations divided and make peace a diminishing allusion...
...troops were getting ready to pull out of Italy, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists were talking revolution; Tito's Yugoslav troops were bulging into Trieste and menacingly taking stations along the new Yugoslav-Italian frontier. In Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria, Communist-backed minorities had matters firmly under control. Finland was tied to the Russian economic and security bloc. France was infiltrated with Communist power. China was gripped by civil war. Persia and Turkey lived precariously in the shadow of the Communist ax. Greece was directly threatened...
...having access to a considerable quantity of fairly good Bulgarian-made cigarets, Atanasoff and his associates decided to bypass the import-export authorities, and deal "directly" on a "practical" basis. Why not? Theirs was not an official military mission such as the Dutch or Swiss had accredited to the Control Council, but simply a purchasing mission with passports visaed by the Soviet occupation authorities...
...Major Mario Salabarria, 34-year-old head of the Havana police's special investigations department, it had been a bad week. Salabarria was in jail, charged with murder. The man he had set out to get was dead, but a hero, and the Army was in control of the police department...