Word: foments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large socialist countries." After Che's return to Havana, the two revolutionaries had a falling-out and decided to go their separate ways. Che then dropped out of sight, and seven months later Castro announced that he had gone off to "other lands of the world" to help foment Castro-style revolutions...
...supervisory role of the Attorney General.) In the upper chamber, predicted Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, the measure, which gives $75 million to local police in the first year, will be combined with the House-passed antiriot bill, which makes it a crime to cross state lines to foment riots. The result, promised Dirksen, "will be a humdinger...
Vulnerable Funds. Nevertheless, Congress seemed more disposed to search for scapegoats than for solutions. The House Un-American Activities Committee received a staff study saying that extremists helped foment some disorders and that Communists produced hate propaganda; the committee promised a full investigation. The Senate Investigations Subcommittee scheduled its own inquiry, while the Judiciary Committee, which was already considering a bill to make itinerant riot rousing a federal crime, heard police officials from seven cities testify that extremists rather than social and economic deprivation cause riots...
...revolt. More realistically, President Joaquin Balaguer puts the blame on Castro. After a number of shootings and bombings in Santo Domingo, Balaguer last week ordered army and naval units into the city to hold down violence, went on the radio to warn that hundreds of Communists are trying to foment a revolution to overthrow his ten-month-old regime and to topple the country into another civil...
...Anti-Mao posters by the dozens were spotted throughout the city, and the municipal gas, water and electric plants were all but shut down by strikes. Anti-Mao leaders in the Taching oil fields stopped production and sent 10,000 of Taching's work force to Peking to foment trouble...