Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chen drew guffaws from his audience when he cited as the Nationalist government's most outstanding achievement its removal from Taiwan of all traces of Communist influence. "There is no Communist activity on the island," he asserted, adding with a half-smile, "No other nation can boast the same...
Under a plan now being studied, the U.S. itself would invite Peking into the U.N. Nationalist China would keep its Security Council seat, and both Chinas would sit in the General Assembly. The Administration argues that the Communists, who have previously scoffed at similar suggestions, would turn it down when it was formally presented (to accept would be to acknowledge Nationalist China). Once they did, responsibility for Red China's not being in the U.N. would rest with Peking...
...sharp measures to free Brazil's inflation-tied economy. He virtually eliminated the government-rigged exchange rates that subsidized imports of oil, wheat and paper-a painful reform long advised by the International Monetary Fund. He welcomed foreign capital with open arms, gave Western Union a contract (over nationalist protests) to set up a new communications system for Brazil, gave Ford the go-ahead for a new tractor plant, while turning down a Czech tractor deal. He spent, too, with caution. When a state governor begged $400,000 for a fisheries project, Quadros promised...
...Arabs rallied behind the Nationalist Party, nominally led by Ali Muhsin Barwani, 42, a quiet, devout dreamer. But its real leader is militant Abdulrahman Mohammed, nicknamed Babu, a highly intelligent Communist who makes flying trips to Prague and Moscow, has taken the party from a slavish parroting of Nasser to an equally slavish parroting of Moscow. The Africans largely backed the Afro-Shirazi Party, led by a tough former merchant seaman named Abeid Karume, who is generally pro-Western, and inclined toward joining the East African Federation proposed by Tanganyika's Prime Minister Julius Nyerere...
...Vice President pointedly urged U.S. diplomats to get out of their "air-conditioned comfort" and meet the people. Throughout his homecoming week, in private conversations with senatorial friends, Johnson zealously talked up his serious new concern for Asian problems, had high praise for Nationalist China's Chiang Kaishek, Thailand's tough Premier Sarit Thanarat...