Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schwarz means to stir people up, and he does. He arouses an automatic-reflex hostility in the liberal-to-left camp, and an equally instinctive support on the far right. But for those Americans who are themselves less easily classified, Schwarz is a hard man to classify. For his crusade poses a question that is deeper than it looks: What is the role of the individual U.S. citizen in antiCommunism...
This year, a new non-Communist opposition is playing a significant part in the elections. Its chances of upsetting the government are nil, but a strong showing would stir up Congress policies and present alternatives for the future...
Sukarno's strategy meanwhile has been to land small bands of "infiltrators" in New Guinea to "show the red and white flag" of Indonesia and stir anti-Dutch feeling among its tribesmen-many of whom have never heard of Indonesia. More sophisticated New Guinea natives are mostly hostile to Sukarno's "liberation" plans. Last week in Manokwari, where the Dutch first established an ad ministrative post 64 years ago, 3,000 dark-skinned Papuans staged an anti-Indonesian protest march-with encouragement from the Dutch. Waving their own red-and-blue national flag, they paraded to the strains...
...runs. But TWA has two heavy handicaps: it lost an estimated $15 million last year, and it is 78% owned by eccentric Howard Hughes, who, though he was forced by financiers last year to put his stock in trusteeship in return for a loan of $165 million, can still stir up a lot of turbulence...
...United States must act now. The Dominican Republic is one of the few dictatorships where there are able opposition leaders capable of giving the country moderate rule. And there is still unrest enough for them to stir up popular demonstrations and even a general strike against the government. If the gangsters of the Trujillo era have time to consolidate their power, it will be too late...