Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early last week, 200 students gathered near the cafeteria where Meredith was eating. They slung eggs, pop bottles, and at least one Molotov cocktail at troops and U.S. marshals. Scores of cherry bombs were hurled with slingshots. Next day, firecrackers exploded all over the campus. A Coke bottle smashed the window of a car carrying Meredith, laid open the face of an accompanying marshal...
According to the poem, Stalin is only pretending to be dead. "Inside his grave," cries Evtushenko, "I envisage a phone" whose wires lead to Albania's Strongman Enver Hoxha. In a clear allusion to Rose-Fancier Vyacheslav Molotov, the poem says that some of Stalin's other heirs "prune roses in retirement, and secretly consider retirement only temporary." Some secret Stalinists "curse Stalin from the podium; but then, by night, they long for the old days." To foil their ambitions, Evtushenko pleads...
...left-of-center Republican-Democratic Union. Some are far-right opportunists who hate Betancourt for his insistent social and economic reforms. Their campaign is disjointed: occasional attacks on isolated villages in the hills, the murder of a few Caracas policemen, machine-gun forays on Caracas embassies, a Molotov cocktail thrown at a newspaper printing plant. Up to now, the bulk of the country's military has supported Betancourt in the interests of stability-and because they prefer his moderate reform to the violent upheaval a homegrown Castro would provoke. But as the tension continues, rumors of an impending coup...
...Kremlin than to Memorial Church. Shortly after accepting President Truman's call to return from China (where he had been ambassador) and become Secretary of State, Marshall led the American delegation to the 'Moscow Foreign Ministers' Conference in April 1947. After a fruitless meeting with Stalin and Molotov in private, Marshall was convinced that the Soviet Union was stalling in European recovery action, that Europe needed help fast, and that only the West could and would provide that help. Piecemeal aid to Greece and Turkey-- the "Truman Doctrine" of 1946-7 not only failed to help Europe as a whole...
...toast at a diplomatic reception as a "grotesque expression of Stalin's regard for the common people." Most surprising to Djilas were the Soviet rulers' big appetites, appeased at drunken, all-night banquets. Before one such repast, at Stalin's villa outside Moscow. Djilas met Molotov in the basement toilet. Explained the Foreign Minister: "We call this unloading before loading." The book's big point is not that Stalin was a revolting tyrant, but that the Communist system permitted and encouraged him to be one. Even "destalinization." suggests Djilas, has not changed the nature of Communism...