Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After almost a month of operation, the Cuban refugee airlift is shaking down into a steady, efficient rescue of people fleeing Castro's Communist dictatorship. The flights are now up to two planes a day, five days a week, and the Pan American DC-7s bring their full load of 95 passengers. In the first 24 days of the lift, some 2,500 Cubans left their unhappy homeland. Less than half settled in the Miami area, which already has 100,000 Cuban refugees. The rest of the newcomers went to other cities throughout the country...
...national conscience." In the political back rooms and in talks with the country's landowning upper class, Lleras Camargo reminded Colombians of the 200,000 killed during the years of bloody civil strife, implying that the front was the only way to avoid another massacre-or a military dictatorship. The campaign ended at a huge rally in Bogotá. With Lleras Camargo looking on, Lleras Restrepo once again accepted the front's nomination for President and proclaimed a platform of nationalism and social reform...
Shut Up. The first stroke went left, when 100 "intellectuals," mostly students and writers, staged a noisy demonstration at the OAS foreign ministers' conference in Rio. Waving banners proclaiming "Down with dictatorship! Up with democracy!", they put on an unpleasant little scene just as Castello Branco drove up to open the conference at the Hotel Gloria. Nine of the leaders were clapped in jail for illegally demonstrating against the government. Last week, the conference over, they were released, and their supporters, who were planning a protest rally, were left with nothing to protest...
...crack motorized cavalry corps, emerged as the muscle behind a group of enlightened officers determined to reestablish constitutional government. He sent tanks rumbling into the city and, after a series of sharp, bloody clashes, routed the army's Colorado faction, which stood for old-style, jack-booted dictatorship. Illia's peaceful election ten months later consolidated Ongania's triumph. Since then the general has kept the troops in the barracks and himself in the background-until even the most loyal of officers started grumbling at the way Argentina was being...
Perspectives, which has a press run of 15,000, is published by the American Friends of Vietnam, a decade-old organization of 150 concerned citizens* with varying political views, united in the belief that Viet Nam should be spared Communist dictatorship. The contributors, mostly academicians or Government officials with considerable experience in Viet Nam, have turned out well-researched articles on Communist control of the Viet Cong, on how North Viet Nam broke the Geneva agreements. But the magazine offers no dogmatic solution of its own. "We want to show that extremes are not the alter natives in Viet...