Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...topple Castro's government, but it turns out that he was only talking loudly and brandishing a twig, for he now seems to say that what he really meant was that any U.S. action should include the other Latin American nations. Since these nations are not about to sanction U.S. intervention of any sort (which would violate the letter and the spirit of the treaties they have induced the U.S. to sign), and since any U.S. threat would remind Khrushchev of his promise last May to defend Cuba, Kennedy is actually on safe, albeit blustering and ineffectual ground...
...disregard and rise above their confessional loyalties. "For God's sake, be impatient," he urged. "There will be no movement in the ecumenical move ment unless we are ready to step out of our traditions." Although the assembly's president, Anglican Canon Edward Patey, formally refused to sanction joint Communion, more than 1,000 young people commandeered the Reformed Church of Switzerland's St. Francois Cathedral and celebrated Communion together. Said one German student: "This is the most tremendous thing of the entire assembly. This is more important than words." But at assembly...
...started in a cozy English club, the consequence of a five-bob (70?) wager between a balding ex-commando and a bespectacled manufacturer of pocket maps. The wager made, War Hero H. G. ("Blondie") Hasler and Mapmaker Francis Chichester approached the prestigious Royal Western Yacht Club for official sanction. Their casual proposition: to sail the perilous Atlantic, from Plymouth to New York, into the teeth of the prevailing westerlies -one lone man to a boat...
...party, with its intricate business and police connections; 3) merit promotions in the armed forces-eight of the army's 17 generals are political appointees; 4) some delegation of authority by Diem, who must learn either to trust his ministers or to appoint ministers he can trust; 5) sanction for a democratic opposition...
...Vatican, Roman churchmen addressed themselves to the same topic, and in a way that was not likely to appeal to the Baptists. The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, ran a front-page editorial called "Firm Points" that obviously had high sanction. Although the editorial was specifically designed to warn Italian Christian Democrats against allying themselves with Marxist groups, its general implications obviously applied also to Kennedy...