Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When long-haired Rebel Chieftain Ba Cut lost his head to a government guillotine a year ago (TIME, July 23, 1956), officialdom in Saigon thought that the threat of rebellions by the country's fanatic, oddball religious groups was ended at last.
In the early 1950s he granted a British-run subsidiary of the Iraq Petroleum Co. a concession to drill for oil in the Omani hinterland. But he was not quite master in his own house. The fanatic Ibadhis in the hills, resentful of the Sultanate rule, had long ago elected...
Red Comeback. Immediately after Castillo Armas' assassination, the government announced that the guard who shot him down was a Communist. Since that would indicate an unpardonable and unexplainable lapse in the government's security measures, the announcement seemed rather to be a hyperbolic way of expressing the fear...
The rock upon which the Boers founded their great Afrikaner culture was the Dutch Reformed Church, a puritanical institution as sternly fundamentalist as the Dutch settlers themselves. Last week apartheid (segregation;, a latter-day fanatic projection of Afrikaner culture, ran smack aground the rock of the Reformed Church.
As Author Ward sees it, the East's option is between the "mixed economy" and relative freedom of India and the "total state" tyranny of Red China. The West's course should be to: 1) help the East before it helps itself at the West's expense...