Word: foment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China, in the middle '20s, the youthful Vietnamese Communist, Ho Chi Minh, had formed his "Young Vietnamese Revolutionary League," was sending agents and propaganda south to foment trouble in Viet Nam itself. Soon Ho's products were showing up by the bushel in Diem's area. Diem himself was already a fervent nationalist, but he was shocked by the extremist cries for violence. Energetically he went to work arresting local Communists, gathering material for a 15-page anti-Communist booklet, which he distributed throughout his area. Rising rapidly to become a provincial governor at 28, Diem went to work...
...U.P.A. has not had help from Ghana, professes to scorn Nkrumah as too leftist. But Ghana and Guinea have fostered a rival Communist-dominated group called the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), and Nkrumah's meddlesome African Affairs Bureau has openly boasted of its efforts to foment rebellion in Angola...