Word: marche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...March on, brave people of our nation, our Communist Party leads us on our new Long March. Millions as one, we march, march...
...gesture better captured the spirit and mood of Teng's nine-day visit to the U.S. last week. After surviving purges back home, setting his country on a quick-step march toward modernization, and winning diplomatic recognition from the most powerful nation in the West, Teng could be forgiven for indulging in a moment of triumph. His trip to Washington was the first ever by a top-ranking Chinese Communist leader, and it added a personal normalization of relations between the two countries to the diplomatic normalization that took effect...
This brittle calm was shattered on March 7, the following year. While attending a funeral at a mosque General Raumara was shot dead. His assassin was a member of a militant religious group called the Devotees of Islam. Eight days later the Iranian parliament passed a bill providing for the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company...
Back in Washington panic began to build and the CIA produced on March 16. 1951 a secret analysis of the situation for Truman and his top officials called "The Current Crisis in Iran." The report noted increased turmoil in the country, the amount of support for the nationalization of the oil industry and the danger of the British worsening the situation by an "unyielding attitude." Yet the special estimate concluded confidently (and Truman marked this in the margin) that "We do not believe...the situation is such that there is imminent danger of the government's losing control, barring armed...
...increased aid, trying to force the president's hand by talk of a communist threat. Eisenhower refused on June 29. The president had already decided, with the consent of British prime minister Churchill, that Mossadeq "had to go" after a National Security Council meeting in March...