Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understandably, had tried to dissuade the Czechoslovak leaders from overthrowing his ideological comrade. The Russians did not seem noticeably bereaved at the loss; Brezhnev immediately fired off a congratulatory telegram to Dubček. Nor did the Czechoslovak public display any particular grief. In their 20th year under Communist rule and 50th year as a nation, most Czechoslovaks hoped that the new changes would help them win more freedom at home and new friends abroad...
Though most Ghanaians praise Ankrah, many of them are chafing for a return to party politics and parliamentary rule, a particularly natural wish in a country that is rich in vocal professionals. Sensing that such a return may be imminent, some politicians have exploited the emotional letdown from the years when Nkrumah promised Ghana the leadership of all of Africa. They have charged Ankrah with turning the country into a provincial, beggar nation, made such an issue out of an agreement that gave Abbott Laboratories of Illinois control of the state pharmaceutical corporation that Abbott decided last month to leave...
...John Harlley, vice chairman of the Liberation Council, answers: "We want it that way. Leading a continent is expensive, and we haven't got the money." Ankrah last week appealed to his people for political restraint during "a year of intensive activity preparatory to the return to civilian rule." It may take that long for a planned National Constituent Assembly to approve a draft constitution, which now calls for a division of power among a president, prime minister and parliament. The council would then permit political parties, but plans to bar about 1,000 former Nkrumah aides from holding...
Writing well below his form in Marat/ Sade, Peter Weiss follows the first rule of the polemicist: never play fair. He has omitted a single, solitary act of mercy or justice on the part of his colonial administrators. Even stage villains are not that consistent. The cast, however, infuses the evening with its own humanity. The unmasked joy with which they finally rip the bogey asunder is obviously not confined to a gesture of liberation in a Portuguese colony...
...movie makes two major points. First, that this otherwise gentle people is grimly determined to resist and fight on and on until they have won "victory," meaning the reunification of Vietnam under Communist rule. Second, that the North Vietnamese war economy is organized in such a way that American bombing will not be able to crush it. "The Vietnamese have never known modern technology," comments Greene, "and so have never become dependent...