Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China hand and troubleshooting U.S. diplomat in Central America; of a heart attack; in Nantucket, Mass. Whitey Willauer ran the quasi-military China Defense Supplies Inc., feeding fuel and arms to General Claire Chennault's "Flying Tigers," stayed on after the war to help Chennault organize and run Nationalist China's Civil Air Transport Service, "the most shot at civilian airline in history." Later, as U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, he helped quarterback the 1954 revolution that overthrew the pro-Communist regime of Jacobo Arbenz in neighboring Guatemala...
...When the Nationalist government jammed an anti-sabotage act through South Africa's Parliament last spring, anti-apartheid Author Alan (Cry the Beloved Country) Paton asked, "What will be next? To make lists of disapproved persons? To confiscate their property and make them wear a yellow star?" Last week a list of disapproved persons was indeed issued by the South African government, and Justice Minister Johannes Vorster explained blandly that the list merely "closes certain loopholes...
...enemies are the 5,000 black terrorists, organized and led from Leopoldville in the neighboring Congo by expatriate Angolan Nationalist Leader Holden Roberto, who has kept the revolt against Portugal's harsh colonial rule simmering for 17 months. Convinced by their witch doctors that Portuguese bullets would turn to water, and smeared with white paste that they thought would make them invisible, the rebels last year began an orgy of terror. Armed with machetes and crude rifles made from pipe, old cans and rubber bands, they mutilated their victims because of the native belief that mutilation prevents a body...
Puerto Rico's nationalists may be few, but they mean to be obstreperous. Back in 1950, two of them tried to assassinate President Harry Truman at Blair House in Washington, and in the foray one nationalist and a Washington policeman were killed. At the same time, Nationalist Leader Pedro Albizú Campos led a revolt on the island itself that ended with 33 dead. Four years later, nationalists shot up the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five Congressmen. Harvard-educated Albizú Campos and his chief lieutenants are serving long jail terms, and their movement now seems in decline...
Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap, under the able leadership of Governor Luis Muñoz Marin, has convinced most Puerto Ricans that they have more to gain than to lose by their loose association with the U.S. It is estimated that there are fewer than 400 nationalist agitators among the island's 2,350,000 population. Some have gone over to Fidel Castro's Cuba; Campos' wife Laura, and one of his aides, Juan Juarbe, serve as members of Castro's delegation to the U.N., where they picture Puerto Rico as "the slave state...