Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opposition loudly cried fraud, said that the ballot boxes were stuffed before the polls opened, that the government had printed thousands of duplicate registration cards. In the new regime, Luis Somoza will sit in the Somoza-dominated Senate, tough Tachito will still command the national guard, and the only genuine opposition will have no voice in the legislature. Nevertheless, the U.S. chose to regard the election as a small evolutionary step toward representative democracy. In recent years the Somozas have instituted a few tentative reforms, have even permitted the opposition press to have its say. To encourage all concerned...
...Communists and their pals, he warned that Africa and Asia are imperiled by a "second scramble" of colonization, led this time by Communist powers, "who are committing the same crime as the capitalists before." Shortly thereafter, the head of the Indian delegation denounced the organization as a "fraud," stomped out of the hall because his neutralist resolution on the Sino-Indian dispute was torpedoed. During a debate on Malaysia, the delegate from Singapore was barred, and an Indonesian was accepted as Brunei's representative...
...broader issues of government-labor relations. In fact, policy is being obscured by personality and justice couched in vindictive terms. If the anti-Hoffa campaign is not admirable, it is also not effective. Nor will it gain much meaning if and when the Teamster leader is jailed for mail fraud...
Every section of this nation favors human rights. Everybody favors human rights. But it is a fraud upon the American people to pretend that human rights can long endure without Constitutional restrictions on the power of government. Many people living today have seen this truth written in blood in recent human history...
...article in the Saturday Evening Post alleges that "President Pusey doesn't believe in God; he is a fraud; the new coeducational House is immoral." Vicious rumors are spread that the article was planted by McGeorge Bundy, who is said to want Pusey's job. Pusey responds with a poem in the Letter Column of the West Coast edition of the New York Times...