Word: manne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Praising President Johnson's action in the crisis, Figueres said that the situation was in the "good hands" of assistant secretary of state Thomas Mann and Panamanian president Roberto Chiari. Whom he called a "serene and responsible...
...cruel. In the film's most successful sequence, he courts a prosperous rug merchant's plain, pure daughter (Linda Marsh), planning to appropriate her dowry to buy a steamer ticket. He is tempted by the family's kindness until his prospective father-in-law (Paul Mann) describes the future: "You'll be old and I'll be old, and we'll sit here and drink and eat and undo the tops of our trousers and take a nap and the women will muzz-muzz in the kitchen." Having no taste for muzz-muzz, Stavros...
...kept up the fight as Ike went out and J.F.K. came in, exhausting himself with 70-hour work weeks despite the fact that the White House in group was making all the big decisions-like the Bay of Pigs. After the Cuban invasion, Mann requested and was finally permitted to go off to the relative quiet of the U.S. embassy in Mexico City...
Mere Hoping Can Hurt. Back in Washington, even with the increased authority provided by Johnson, Mann will find his new job a man killer. To succeed, time, money and genius are needed-and none of them are plentiful. Through Fidel Castro, the Communists are actively pushing violent revolution designed to grab half a dozen Latin American nations before Western-style democracy, fed by development, can take root. It is increasingly obvious that a policy of coexisting with Castro, while merely hoping that the governments he threatens will be strong enough to resist, hurts rather than helps. Thus, U.S. policy toward...
...will be up to Mann to give some sort of cohesion to U.S. relationships with Latin America, and if the task is formidable, the rewards could be beyond calculation...