Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rubens Vaz, hero . . . father of four children, fell this night at my side. My own son ran with him the risk to which all Brazilians living under a regime of corruption and terror are subject. Those who resist corruption fall victims of violence . . . The sight of Rubens Vaz lying in the street . . . prevents me from analyzing coldly at this moment the hideous ambush of tonight. But before God I accuse only one man as responsible for this crime. He is the protector of thieves, whose impunity gives them audacity for acts like this one tonight. This man is Getulio Vargas...
...migration south-if they could get away-and help win a "psychological victory" over the Communists; he set up a $20 million emergency program (with U.S. help) to move and resettle 700,000 evacuees, including 40,000 loyal tribesmen from the Red China border. He had not only to resist the enemy but to inspire his own people. "If only Viet Nam had a Magsaysay," said one U.S. observer. "Or even a Rhee...
...replied, pointing skyward, "I shall stay forever-up there." Then what would happen to Bacninh's anti-Communist villagers? "We are lost. The Viet Minh will exert pressure against the families and the village elders. It will be easy for the Communists. They are the victors. Who can resist the victors...
...smile includes the romantic tragedy he also knows to be an absurdity, and yet he cannot resist spraying it all with an almost cloying odor of Victor Hugo No. 5. But in an instant Ophuls will catch himself up with a comic grimace. There are vignettes of "le hunting,'' of an English youth on the grand tour, of an aged nymph at a ball, that almost break up the show with guffaws. Not to forget some wickedly amusing lines-e.g., "A woman can refuse jewels she hasn't seen," says the count's petite amie...
...Eisenhower sent three conservative governors, Colorado's Dan Thornton. Texas' Allan Shivers and Pennsylvania's John Fine, on a fact-finding mission to Japan and Korea. Last week the three governors presented their report to the President. It carried a startling recommendation: Japan, in order to resist the siren call of Communism, must trade with the Chinese Communists...