Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yankee Imperialism." The Roosevelt Corollary doubtless prevented European interventions in the Caribbean. But it also did grave damage in U.S. relations with Latin America. Denunciations of "Yankee imperialism'' became oratorical routine for every aspiring Latin American politician...
...powerful chief executive. And though De Gaulle has described a strong presidency as an eventual "influence of continuity," his blueprint contains no provision for vice-presidential succession in an emergency. If De Gaulle were to die tomorrow, the office would go to Senate President Gaston Monnerville, an undistinguished politician from French Guiana...
...city council elections, but last week's upheaval was one for the books. The eighth coup in 13 years-and the third since September 1961-it was engineered by a Parliament that had been dissolved by the army last March, and it brought to power as Premier a politician who had been tossed into jail at the same time. After announcing their return, the civilian upstarts told the army to go back to soldiering, and the army obeyed. With no violence at all, constitutional rule was restored...
...only a matter of time before the unemployed Deputies were clamoring to get back in. Fortnight ago, President Nazem El-Koudsi and veteran politician Khaled El-Azm, a nimble opportunist who has served as Premier four times since 1941, boldly called the dissolved Parliament back into session...
...story develops he develops into a conspicuously compromised politician who does not hesitate to use an evil means for what he assumes to be a good end: self-preservation. At one point the President coldly starts to strangle a small boy who has recognized him. "Hundreds will be shot if I do not escape," he explains. "What is one life against so many?" Bewildered in the mazes of moral choice that inescapably invest a man who tries to do a good deed in a naughty world, the hero kills a comparatively innocent soldier in order to save the comparatively guilty...