Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peking, Chinese mobs manhandled Red diplomats, damaged cars and battered at legation compounds in such a xenophobic frenzy that the Russian, Yugoslav, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and Mongolian governments all filed stiff diplomatic protests with the Chinese foreign ministry. Not sparing the few non-Communists in Peking, Red Guards also forced a French diplomat to stand for seven hours in Peking's freezing cold. Abroad, Chinese students and technicians demonstrated against the Soviet Union in Cambodia, Tunisia, Britain, Yugoslavia, Iraq and North Viet Nam. Typical of the venom that now marks Sino-Soviet relations was the chant of Chinese students outside...
...were cops, she said, but they beat her up on the street-a story coldly denied by the police on the stand, warmly supported by her cousin in the press. Whatever the facts in the matter, Raven was charged with third-degree assault, violation of New York's stiff Sullivan weapons law, and unlawful possession of the tear-gas pen. Possible sentence: up to six years...
...stiff letter of resignation to Wilson, Bullitt expressed his concern that "our government has consented now to deliver the suffering peoples of the world to new oppressions, subsections and dismemberments." To illustrate his conviction, he began organizing a book about Wilson, Lenin, Clemenceau, Orlando and Lloyd George...
...Oancia* reported that one night last week gunfire chattered for more than five minutes and that the next morning the inevitable posters appeared, some of them reporting that factory workers had made trouble in the capital's western district. Across China, the Red Guards have met with increasingly stiff resistance in their drive to spread Mao's revolutionary fervor. "One learns how to make a revolution by making it," Mao has said, "just as one learns to swim by swimming." For the Red Guards, the swimming seems more and more to be upstream...
Certainty in Congress. Castello Branco has drawn up a new constitution that will give the President wide powers of decree (TIME, Dec. 16), announced a new press bill that provides stiff fines and up to four years in prison for magazine and newspaper editors who print anything "prejudicial to national security." He is drafting a new law that will give the President sweeping powers to deal with "security" cases. Last week he decreed a new business tax that slaps a 5% levy on shareholder profits. Since the government's ARENA party holds a 304-seat majority in Congress (compared...