Word: meine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scholars who have consulted with the Government's China watchers have become nearly unanimous in depicting China as a relatively defensive, inward-looking, less-than-bellicose land. Says Halperin: "There was an enormous change from the time McNamara and Rusk were quoting Lin Piao as the new Mein Kampf to the time Nixon and Kissinger came...
...opposed him in last year's campaign, will soon be replaced by Nathaniel Davis, 46, a cool-headed career man currently serving as U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala. Though delicate, Davis' new assignment hardly compares with his last one. He went to Guatemala after his predecessor, John Gordon Mein, was gunned down by terrorist killers in the streets of Guatemala City...
Where, for instance, is the veering frenzy of Freud's early years, the huge ambition thrusting out of old shtetl terrors and the hidden struggle with a Jewish mother who called him "mein goldener Sigi" till the day she died? As Stone presents him, the young Freud is just another nice, bright Jewish boy, "my son the doctor," and his long and lust-tormented engagement to Martha Bernays is a Victorian idyl of sweet reason and unspattered upholstery...
What does the "left terror" consist of They have kidnapped rich business man, killed some MLN politicians associated with MANO, killed two ambassadors (one, the above-mentioned Mein), machine gunned the U.S. military team chief Col. Weber (right after MANO had killed Miss Guatemala because she was a guerrilla's girl friend), bombed jeeps, bombed some American restaurants like "The Hawaii" and "The American Donut Shop," bombed the newspaper Presna Libre (Free Press), bombed Castillo Armas' tomb and tear gassed the Peace Corps offices. Now, I will not argue that this is just a "tactical question." Violence which strikes innocents...
...Guatemala, troops have crushed the rural-based guerrillas who once owned the mountainous northeast, but now the survivors are operating in Guatemala City. As many as 500 F.A.R. (Rebel Armed Forces) terrorists specialize in kidnaping and assassinations. The 1968 murder of U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein by F.A.R. terrorists was the brutal inaugural of the diplomatic kidnapings in Latin America. Last April, when the government balked at freeing 24 jailed terrorists in return for the kidnaped West German Ambassador, Karl von Spreti, the F.A.R. proved itself ready to kill again...