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...warned that the formation of the Multilateral Force which the United States has proposed would not be an effective transformation of the alliance. "Such a proqect," Alphard said, "the military value of which is questionable, would constitute a dangerous foment of division not only in the midst of our Alliance, but for the infant European community...
...colony's first general elections in 1953. Jagan's intemperate demands for independence and deliberately incited sugar strikes forced the British to boot him out after five months. Ever since his return to power three years ago, Jagan has gone out of his way to foment racial passions. When last week's elections were announced in October 1963, his answer was to send his sugar workers out on a savage strike that lasted six months and took 173 lives before 5,000 troops restored order...
...foreign diplomat in La Paz, "we are living in a state of anarchy." One week after President Victor Paz Estenssoro had been toppled by a military uprising, about the only thing General René Barrientos and his junta of colonels had proved was that it is easier to foment a revolution than to run a government...
...while Brother Raúl kept dozing off on the platform, only to be nudged awake by an amused Che Guevara. In sputtering defiance of the OAS, Castro issued his own "Declaration of Santiago de Cuba," accusing the U.S. of subverting Cuba and threatening to continue his attempts to foment revolution around Latin America. "Unless there is an end to the pirate attacks from the U.S. and other countries," he cried, "the people of Cuba will feel they have an equal right to help, with all resources available to them, the revolutionary movements in all countries that practice such interference...
...could say could possibly damage SNCC's reputation with the white Mississippi press. I should like to set the record straight. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee remains nonviolent: we have no intention of forming a Mississippi Mau-Mau this summer or any other, neither do we intend to foment or encourage violent rsistance...