Word: diehardism
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Elected with the votes of ex-Dictator Juan Peron's diehard followers, Frondizi nevertheless received his sash of office from the military men who had booted Peron, and he is still torn between these two suspicious, irreconcilable forces. Early this month the Peronista "tactical command," already rewarded by a 20% blanket wage increase and a political-amnesty bill, met behind guarded doors in Buenos Aires and twisted the screws tighter. Frondizi got word to drop all court cases against Peronistas, return all Peronista property, and fire the federal judges appointed by the military regime...
...time for the Senate vote that could add a 49th star to the U.S. flag. Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, getting word that diehard opposition, mostly Southern, had gasped its last, rushed from a steak dinner to Capitol Hill. Alaska's Governor Mike Stepovich excused himself to his dinner hosts, sped to the Capitol. The Senate roll was called, and the U.S. Senate last week voted 64 (31 Democrats, 33 Republicans) to 20 to admit Alaska to the Union. Barring only the foregone conclusions of a presidential signature and an Alaska referendum next month, the U.S. had its first...
...General's March. Malraux's vision of victory was one calculated to appeal to millions of Frenchmen. But its details evoked black anger among the diehard European ultras of Algeria, determined to maintain their privileged position though the heavens fall. This week, accompanied by Socialist ex-Premier Guy Mollet, the Cabinet minister most hated by the ultras, De Gaulle staked his future-and that of France-on another dramatic trip to Algiers...
...this was hard for De Gaulle's parliamentary adversaries to swallow. But for the colons and balcony generals of Algiers- whom De Gaulle contemptuously dismissed in private conversation as "a bunch of boy scouts"-even harsher medicine was in store. De Gaulle's Cabinet included no diehard colonialists and not one of the men involved in the Algiers insurrection. It consisted instead of parliamentary ministers and nonparty technicians centered around France's three major "democratic" parties. Among them: Socialist Guy Mollet and Catholic Popular Republican Pierre Pflimlin as Ministers of State; Independent Antoine Pinay as Minister...
...December 1944, and the Russians have driven the Germans back into Czechoslovakia. Only diehard Nazis still hope that Hitler's secret weapons will somehow turn defeat into magical victory. Czech partisans are rampant behind the German lines, settling old scores with pro-German civilians, cutting off groups of soldiers, even capturing the division commander who is trying to stem the Russian surge through the Carpathian passes...