Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member country of the Socialist Commonwealth where the purity or supremacy of the party might be threatened. Diplomats are uncertain whether the pronouncement represents only an after-the-fact rationalization for the invasion of Czechoslovakia or whether it is a major development in Soviet doctrine that could justify the dispatch of Red Army troops into other socialist nations, such as Rumania, Yugoslavia and perhaps even Albania, where Communism does not thoroughly conform to the Kremlin model...
...Looked at in the perspective of his 23 years in public life," declared the Times, "Hubert Humphrey is a humanitarian, an authentic and effective liberal who can be depended upon to lead the nation in ways of peace." And Humphrey is the choice of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which lauds his "courage to speak up for one America." The Atlanta Constitution, Arkansas Gazette, Denver Post and Nashville Tennessean have also urged Humphrey's election and the traditionally Democratic papers of Louisville-the Courier-Journal and the Times-probably will, too. The Washington Post does not intend to back...
...core of votes - and to some extent feel that they are, in fact, the party. The symbiosis works well enough when Labor is out of power and both party and unions need one another. It works less well once the party leaders don their bowler hats, pick up their dispatch cases and move into Whitehall. Then the unions naturally enough expect their reward. But the responsibilities of ruling Britain seldom enable a socialist government to do all it would like for the workingman. The result is an inevitable clash, and it has seldom been more acrimonious than it is today...
...bizarre moves. A widely known journalist, Wiggins has no legal or diplomatic experience. When he was tapped, he was preparing to retire from the Post (see PRESS) to his 80-acre Maine farm and a weekly newspaper. Wiggins came to Washington in 1933 as correspondent for the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press, rose to editor before becoming assistant to the publisher of the New York Times. In 1947 he joined the Post, was named editor in 1961. A staunch defender of freedom of information, Wiggins noted just a few months ago that the ideal newsman should be "a witness...
Meanwhile, the Soviet press resumed its attacks against Prague. In a Moscow dispatch, Tass reported that the counterrevolution in Czechoslovakia had assumed such great proportions that workers who were loyal to socialism lived in fear for their very lives. A Polish army newspaper chimed in with a report that revisionists and Zionists in Czechoslovakia refused to give up their fight against Communism...