Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belief that a conservative Republican cannot be elected in November. Disturbed by Rockefeller's comments, Richard Nixon started telling interviewers that he was not concerned about the South because "I'm not conceding any of these states to Wallace." As a matter of fact, Nixon says, "Wallace will so disrupt the already shattered Democratic machines in the great cities that it will be easier for the Republicans to come through in the big states...
...country's urban centers, long isolated from the fighting war, has certainly made the blow even heavier." Yet other papers, like the Washington Evening Star, questioned whether the enemy gained any psychological advantage. The Communists, to be sure, said the Star, have proved that they can "attack and disrupt life in almost any city." But that was never very much in doubt, and it hardly represents a victory-"not when one considers the staggering Communist losses, not when they failed to capture and hold any major installation or locality, not when one takes into consideration such atrocities...
Nothing Printable. North Korea has certainly done its best to keep its brethren in the South shivering. Late in 1966, Premier Kim II Sung launched a program of guerrilla subversion designed to disrupt the South and humiliate the U.S. at every turn...
...feel frustrated. Its seven-year plan, due to end last year, failed to meet its goals and had to be extended-while South Korea's healthy economy was spurting ahead at a G.N.P. rate of 8.4% in 1967. Kim and his government failed in their efforts to disrupt the South Korean presidential elections last spring, watched with embarrassment while South Korea sent 46,000 men to fight its Communist allies in Viet Nam. And at 57, Kim is desperately anxious to see unification of North and South Korea realized before he reaches 61, the all-important year...
...reorganization of the entire party structure, Zbiri could take no more. At the head of a column of troops and tanks, he set out from Orleansville, 105 miles southwest of Algiers, and began rolling toward the capital. He expected no resistance. Army cohorts in Algiers had promised to disrupt government communications, and he was counting on the support of Major Said Abid, commander of the First Military Region, who controlled the approaches to Algiers. There was one flaw in the plot: Boumediene's secret police knew its every detail. Forewarned, the President quickly crushed the coup, dispatching...