Word: govern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington sees it, Souvanna's neutralist government represents the most palatable of several ugly alternatives. The U.S. has tried to defeat the Reds in Laos by arming and training General Phoumi's army-but Phoumi failed. The Pentagon remains reluctant to commit U.S. armed forces to a landlocked, roadless and rugged terrain for an endless guerrilla war against Communists from China and North Viet Nam. Souvanna may well suffer the fate of other non-Communist leaders who have tried to govern in conjunction with the Reds and have lost their countries to Communist subversion...
...most movng writing in Heart break House is found in the occasional philosophical musings Shaw inects into the conversation--for example, the exchanges between the Captain and Ellie in Act II ("You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life; and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live...
...most conspicuous members of Muñoz' Democratic Left-and a man on whom the U.S. counts heavily-is Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt. A onetime radical revolutionary who has moderated his views with time, Betancourt was elected three years ago to govern a country rich in oil but economically ravaged by dictatorship. He has struggled to restore financial stability and provide jobs for his people, who were largely illiterate (illiteracy has dropped from 57% to 27% in three years) and mostly poor. No leader is under fiercer attack by the Communists and Castroites, who have...
Like Communists everywhere, those in Cuba may not know how to run an economy or make the public happy, but they know how to hold control. A likelier possibility is a fallout among the factions who govern, and it is a U.S. worry that when it suits the Communists, Castro might be found murdered with a U.S. pistol lying near by. The same thought must trouble Castro, for he no longer moves around freely, unattended. Already assassination attempts have been reported against Brother Raul...
...perform its duty--which is to govern--the mind must have been trained in such a way that nothing can escape its control: this implies enable to catch sound, isolated as as superimposed or in linear succession, to feel rhythm (I mean rhythm and not only bar division; this in its is a subject which would require less comments), and eventually make the complex structure of the work as a whole perceptible...