Word: imperialists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nhat Hanh said, the Viet Cong have a number of effective propaganda weapons in addition to the claim that the U.S. is fighting an imperialist...
...foray abroad since he took over as Premier 19 months ago. The harsh confrontations that once were Moscow's hallmark from Berlin to the Caribbean no longer occur. Instead the Russians seem anxious to avoid direct conflict with the U.S. Still, the Russian rulers have to maintain anti-imperialist face in order to argue convincingly against their Red Chinese ideological rivals. That task fell last week to Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev...
...farm, five contacts and-in the government's first admission that Betancourt had not acted alone-five plane passengers who had "paid various sums of money to Betancourt so that he would include them on the trip." Fidel Castro blamed the whole unhappy incident on "Yankee imperialist policy that constantly stimulates and pays deserters," but he was clearly even madder that Betancourt had eluded Cuba's porous security system for so long...
...National Fibre. Churchill was traveling through the U.S. on a lecture tour, and he found the atmosphere at the University of Michigan less than congenial. While defending British colonial wars, he was hooted and hissed by the students; afterward, he beat an uncharacteristic retreat. Most of the boisterously anti-imperialist student body were happy to see him go. But Gustavus Ohlinger, a cub reporter for the campus magazine, thought his fellow newsman was worth a story. He trailed Churchill to his hotel, talked his way past an aide, and asked for an interview. Churchill ordered two bottles of whisky...
...Churchill's death, Ohlinger, now 89, decided it would do no harm to publish the remainder of the interview. What if Churchill had suggested that Russia should be permitted to move into China? Considering his youth, the hour, and the amount of whisky he had consumed, the young imperialist said nothing to tarnish his place in history...