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...Hysteria." With the automatism of Pavlov's dogs, Communists salivated with denunciations. In Moscow, Red Star warned that Soviet armed forces "are in a position of highest military readiness to crush the aggressors." A Red Chinese broadcast accused the U.S. of "frantically preparing a new military aggression against Cuba." In his opening speech at the new session of the United Nations, Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko raged at the "war hysteria" and "campaign of hate" in the U.S., warned of war if the U.S. moves against Cuba...
...Premier Benkhedda, despite his enmity toward Ben Bella, pointed the way to unity by going out and voting. And fiery army commander Colonel Houari Boumedienne kept himself and his Communist-equipped troops relatively out of sight. Only when the vote was in did Boumedienne announce a drive to crush antigovernment resistance in the region around Algiers...
...powers at Verona, Italy, in the autumn of 1822. In Spain a revolution had forced the tyrannical Ferdinand VII (Ferdinand the Unbeloved) to accept a liberal constitution. Bent on preserving absolutism, France and the Holy Alliance powers-Russia. Austria and Prussia-decided at Verona to intervene in Spain to crush the revolution...
...preen and twitter for the man who keeps her for the same reasons he keeps a second car: convenience and ostentation. Her songwriters arrive, and the canary mechanically warbles a few love songs she has sung a hundred times before without a pulse of feeling; but suddenly now they crush her heart and she flies into the street again. Death is everywhere: in the broadcasts from Algeria, in the movie she drops in on, in the jaws of the street-corner showman who cheerily passes the hat as he swallows frogs alive...
...Turks denied the accusation, privately suggested that Kassem had made the charges only to cover up his inability to crush the Kurdish rebellion, was using them as a means to stir up new public support for his shaky government. But in a pointed warning to the Iraqis, the Turks last week ordered their ambassador in Baghdad back to Turkey "to complete his vacation period" and announced that the annual military maneuvers of the Turkish army would take place next month. Where? Along the Iraqi frontier, where a little sabre rattling might help the diplomats...