Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overthrew the cruel regime of Dictator Fulgencio Batista. No sooner had he taken over than Castro turned dictator himself, began slaughtering those who had opposed him. Even in his scurrilous attacks on the U.S., Castro became an idol to many Latin Americans, for they saw him as a heroic nationalist-a symbol of victory by the oppressed...
Though Washington and London withheld recognition, many officials clung to the hope that Zanzibar would not in fact turn out to be another Cuba. They insisted that President Abeid Karume was a determined African nationalist, not a Communist. And though U.S. intelligence sources were certain "Field Marshal" John Okello had been trained in Cuba, it was becoming increasingly clear that he wielded little power in the new government. Last week Okello was back at his broadcasting chores, warning civilians to lay down their guns. "Otherwise," he bellowed in his own arresting argot, "you will see how we hang people...
...most significant question in the affair, be felt, was whether Red China's acceptance of an ambassador from France while France maintains diplomatic relations with Nationalist China would represent a tacit acceptance of a world with two Chinas...
...avenue of contact with the vast human and geographic mass that China represents. Embittered U.S. officials grumbled that De Gaulle has completely overlooked the fact that the U.S. has paid and is still paying to keep troops in South Korea facing the Communist threat, is financing the Chinese Nationalist military effort on Formosa, and is currently engaged in a fighting war with Communism in South Viet...
...Afrikaners call the "black danger") to seek a new life in the controversial land. For three years, more whites have moved to South Africa than have left, and in 1963 net immigration reached an estimated 26,000-the highest total in the 15-year reign of the pro-apartheid Nationalist regime...