Word: pact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they supply much of the marching manpower in the blocks-long demonstrations. Iwai's boys also helped out by wildcat strikes that stalled streetcars and commuters' trains. Japan, according to Akira Iwai, "is under the control of American and Japanese capitalists," and he opposes the Security Pact because it "can only antagonize our two powerful neighbors on the continent," Red China and the Soviet Union. Sohyo is nominally run by fat, moonfaced Kaoru Ota, 48, but the real power is firmly in Iwai's ambitious grasp...
...radio stations. The policy line is clearly proSoviet, U.S. SABOTAGED THE SUMMIT! headlined the official daily Revolution. KHRUSHCHEV STILL YEARNS FOR PEACE, says La Calle. Yet, though not free to criticize home-grown Communists, the influential weekly Bohemia frequently plays up historical, deadpan articles on the Nazi-Soviet pact and the Khrushchev butchery in Hungary...
...from a man once considered to be concerned only with French grandeur. In the U.S., where De Gaulle's soaring prestige had finally won him something close to his longstanding demand for equality with Britain in U.S. counsels, his assurances of France's solidarity with the Atlantic pact were cheered...
...June 19, the day Dwight Eisenhower is scheduled to arrive in Tokyo, Japan's revised, ten-year security pact with the U.S. will automatically become law-provided that the Japanese Diet is still in session. Last week, as the capstone of their fanatical drive to kill the treaty, the 165 members of the Diet's Socialist minority solemnly vowed to resign en masse, a move that they hoped would simultaneously force immediate dissolution of the Diet and topple the government of Premier Nobusuke Kishi. To supplement these "parliamentary tactics," the Socialists screwed up to more frenzied pitch than...
...demonstrations had been more anti-Kishi than anti-security pact, and at week's end there were signs that the public was getting tired of the Socialist demonstrators. Independent newspapers, sharply hostile to the government earlier in the week, were critical of Asanuma's antics at the embassy. Snorted Asahi: "Asanuma behaved like Nikita Khrushchev." When word arrived from Washington that President Eisenhower was still determined to go through with the visit to Tokyo so long as Japan's invitation still stood, the Premier sent reassurances that "the greater part of the Japanese people will welcome Eisenhower...