Word: stranglehold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stranglehold. Frei also got unexpected-and unwitting-help from Fidel Castro. After the shooting at El Salvador, Fidel took to Havana radio to attack Chile's President as "a coward and reactionary" who had "promised revolution without blood but has given only blood without revolution." Castro's castigations struck many Chileans as an outsider's interference in domestic problems, and coupled with Frei's television address helped to undercut support for the FRAP-led general strike...
...Frei's sweeping proposals for land reform-which themselves are stymied in the legislature. Heartened by a recent by-election victory in Valparaiso and by the failure of last week's strike, Frei nonetheless faces a long hard struggle in his effort to break FRAP's stranglehold...
Political Boss Frank ("I am the law") Hague put Jersey City on the map by making it the most corrupt municipality in the U.S. When Hague's 30-year stranglehold was finally broken in 1949, Jersey City seemed destined for lingering obscurity. But last week that drab, gritty city (pop. 275,000) was back on the map again. For three nights, hundreds of Negroes rioted, looted and tossed fire bombs in a racial rampage that was grimly reminiscent of last month's Harlem and Rochester violence...
...single legislator roaming, for example, a huge, sparsely settled Texas range serve his constituents as well as can the city legislator with a pocket-sized district? Is it really helpful to run the risk of giving a big-city political machine, such as Chicago's, a stranglehold on a whole state? If both branches must be based on population, why not save money and time by following Nebraska's example of a unicameral legislature, a possibility that was being discussed last week in Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Vermont and Rhode Island? Should two such diverse areas as Northern...
...protests that the contract would give the Teamsters the power of a nationwide strike that might amount to a stranglehold on the nation's economy, Hoffa offered sly reassurance. Such a national strike, he snorted, would only deprive him of his most potent weapon -playing off one employer against another by striking some while allowing others to operate...