Word: grips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evidently, Juan Peron knew the student's preference for democracy over fascism, for his tight security grip on all university activities points up his fear of the students. Not only was the name of every student, professor, and administrator on file with the "Servicio de Enlance y Coordinacion," but this secret police organization kept complete dossiers on over 70,000 people connected with universities. Tapped phone calls, unsigned reports of conversations, lists of friends--all appeared in abundance to keep 48 full-time employees busy in a small three-story building. These offices are now shut down and carefully guarded...
Some students joined professors in Peron's spy network by reporting on activities of fellow students. But most students either kept quiet or joined the violently anti-Peron group, FUA. On October 5, 1954, Peron began to close his grip on FUA. State police, dressed as private citizens, engineered a fist-fight in a student meeting in Buenos Aires and several students were jailed. FUA then called a strike, which 95 percent of the students in the city observed. Armed police then moved in on the protesting students, and the result was 200 students in jail, 500 expelled from...
During the next few weeks at Geneva, while Secretary of State Dulles is trying to unravel the West from the tangles of the Soviet's new grip in Egypt, the Administration at home ought to face up to the causes of this situation. It should create a separate technical assistance agency, ultimately responsible to the Secretary of State, but with an administrator who has both responsibility and authority for all phases of the program. Then the United States could take a firm and unconfused stand regarding technical aid with underdeveloped countries such as Egypt which try to play off West...
...Sherman Adams gave the Cabinet word that was good news for the U.S. and the whole free world: the President is now ready to dispose of all problems that any department head might hesitate to settle on his own authority. Gradually but persistently, Dwight Eisenhower was getting a new grip on the tiller...
Meanwhile, what of Ho? Some observers guess that he longs for untroubled retirement. Others think he has lost his grip, may be forced out. A less wishful and probably sounder conjecture is that Ho has gone back to his old trick of standing behind the lines and quarterbacking Communist strategy for all Southeast Asia. Old revolutionaries may die, but with revolution to be done they do not just fade away. In Red eyes, there is revolution to be done in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaya, and across the Malacca Strait in Indonesia...