Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Matthews repeatedly attacked the "black and white" attitude of the United States toward Cuba. "The Eisenhower administration never made any distinction in practice between a radical nationalist revolution and a Communist revolution. The Communist Party does not run Cuba--Castro does. In the long run, this may be a very important distinction, and not only in Cuba. The Chilean Com- munists, for example, are Chileans first and Communists second...
...after the assassination of their father, stuck to their promise that no Somoza would appear on the ballot. But the boys will have a friend in the palace. Elected President by a landslide was former Foreign Minister René Schick, 53, hand-picked choice of the Somozas' Nationalist Liberal Party...
...against the covetous desires of nearby Yemen, the British since 1959 have been linking neighboring sultanates and emirates in a new Federation of South Arabia. Aden was to join in March, but an outburst of riots sparked by pro-Yemen labor leaders and the emergence of an Egyptian-backed nationalist regime in Yemen itself persuaded Britain to speed things...
...story might have been brushed aside as another propaganda tidbit, but the official Nationalist Central News Agency quickly verified it. What's more, claimed Taipei, the guerrillas tied up 100,000 Communist troops for three months, inflicted 700 casualties, shot down a Red reconnaissance plane, and engaged in a widespread campaign of sabotage...
Then Chiang Kai-shek sets off the nationalist revolution. Step by step the ship and her crew are isolated, humiliated by loss of their work coolies, shocked by the knowledge that they are helpless. They degenerate into snarling rival groups, capable of rioting over a few onions, capable of murder...