Word: imperialists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow, the Russians revealed that their immediate target was U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and the U.N. operation in the Congo. In a savage 1,500-word statement, they attacked Hammarskjold as an "imperialist lackey" and an "accomplice and organizer of murder," and demanded that he be thrown out of office. Simultaneously, Moscow announced immediate recognition of the Communist-backed Stanleyville rebel regime of Red-lining Antoine Gizenga, onetime Vice Premier in the Lumumba government, and promised "all possible assistance and support" for it. To an anxious world, it seemed a clear threat that Russia was ready to intervene physically...
...time political officer with the First Motorized Rifle Division in Potsdam, said the theme of troop indoctrination is now a "justified war of liberation" against West Germany. East German troops are told they should have no compunction about killing fellow Germans if they are serving the "imperialist" cause...
...their pencils, Lumumba cried: "I am going out of my house tonight to die like Gandhi ... If I die, it will be because the whites have paid a black man to kill me ... I made Kasavubu head of state; now he is nothing but an outlaw. Mobutu is an imperialist, a fascist." Later he told the newsmen: "You journalists, you can go anywhere. Fetch Kasavubu. Fetch Mobutu. Tell them Lumumba challenges them to a duel!" Then Lumumba's voice fell to a mumble, and he tottered off to bed, muttering: "Tomorrow I will die with the people, I will...
...imperialism, the bomb exploded." But he announced a police-state innovation, apparently long planned: a neighborhood spy system set up to "know who lives in each block and what he does." Off went a second bomb and Castro's smile grew wan. "Let us not underestimate the imperialist enemy," he said...
...included a demand for a prompt end to colonial rule in the world's remaining colonies, and a sharp attack on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, calling for a triumvirate to take his place. Khrushchev seemed bent on destroying Hammarskjold's usefulness (calling him a lackey of the imperialist powers), as the Soviets had destroyed the usefulness of Hammarskjold's predecessor, Trygve...