Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faced with humiliating disregard by the Soviet Union before the entire world, and a Communist apparatus of ambiguous loyalties at home, Dr. Castro has decided to condemn and dismiss from government service leaders of the Popular Socialist Party. Last week in the New York Times, Tad Szulc cited a report that "Dr. Castro has almost virtually eliminated most of the 'old line' Communists, responsive to Moscow, from positions of influence in the Cuban government, and has moved in his own trusted aides...
...Socialism owing the Soviet Union no military debt, that country is Cuba. The Soviet distrust of Castro and his colleagues, today so easily forgotten, parallele the Stalinist distrust of the independently victorious Josip Broz Tito. Just as Tito did in the late '40s, Castro has found it necessary to dismiss those politicians who regard the USSR as their patria. Finally, it was a dispute over military autonomy that catalyzed the Yugoslav-Soviet conflict. The same could hold true in Cuba...
Powell was only going through the motions of defending the students, since the judge had assured him before the short five minute trial that he would dismiss the charges. When announcing his decision, the judge said that as a Yale alumnus he felt obligated to believe Yale's story about the raid...
...decade's most scandalous trial had resulted in his conviction for pederasty. The Wilde of this epistolary confession, here published for the first time in full (though it has been published previously in heavily edited versions as De Profundis), is anything but a philosophical trifler who can dismiss all existence in an epigram...
...assessing the gravity of the threat, the President made an undeniably sound point: a Soviet-controlled military establishment on the island, capable of destroying American cities, is logistically and politically intolerable. This country is not prepared to dismiss Cuba's missile system as part of a "defensive" deterrent network. Deterrence just does not look defensive to those within range...