Word: henchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rallies. A major offshoot in Georgia, the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, uses recordings narrated by former Network Radio Announcer Wally Butterworth to spread its pitch. Kluxers near Natchez, Miss., dropped recruiting leaflets from an airplane. Shelton himself uses a car radiotelephone to communicate with his henchmen...
...President, his "poverty czar" [March 20] and their henchmen are preparing to take another giant step in the plan to make the American citizen subservient to a regime. The "war on poverty" is obviously a vote-influencing scheme, another duplication of effort, another billion dollars for scattershot, another bureau to enlarge the federal payroll, another gimmick by a glib and slick-tongued politician. The chief cause of poverty is inflation, and after nearly three decades of "spending to create prosperity," inflationary policies are still predominant...
...commander into the Mekong Delta, also replaced three division chiefs. Said one pleased American adviser: "They are putting some young tigers out there." Red North Viet Nam's radio charged that "U.S. imperialists schemed through the recent coup to replace the inefficient Ngo Dinh Diem clique by other henchmen who can serve more effectively their aggressive war." It was a handsome testimonial from the enemy...
...Harry, 45, were hiding in a straw hut at the edge of a sugar-cane field, six miles north of Port-au-Prince. But this time someone tipped off Duvalier. A swarm of government goons surrounded the hut and set fire to the field. The Barbot brothers and three henchmen stumbled out through the smoke and flames-smack into a hail of bullets...
Then Silence. The ringleader was Wismar Medina Rojas. 28, second mate aboard the Anzoátegui. Smuggling eight FALN gunmen aboard the freighter, he surprised the rest of the 36-man crew. In a series of gloating radio messages, he identified himself and his henchmen, said that captain and crew were unharmed. Then silence from the Anzoátegui presumably on its way to Cuba and a propaganda triumph for Fidel Castro...