Word: strongmanism
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...dangerous fire in Laos, chose to fan the flames, the U.S. reaction would be immediate. For every two guns the Communists sent to the Pathet Lao. the U.S. was prepared by way of "escalation"' to ship three to the pro-Western army of Premier Boun Oum and his strongman, General Phoumi Nosavan...
...vassalage on our part whatever." Western diplomats in Rabat see Hassan as following a calculated policy that is aimed first at appeasing left-wing opposition at home, second at improving Morocco's position in Africa. As a conservative monarchy on a continent where the trend is toward strongman republics, Morocco must not seem behindhand in the emotion-packed "African" issues of colonialism, imperialism and prickly neutralism...
...member of the new White House family who is getting the biggest buildup by colleagues as the Administration's "strongman" is McGeorge Bundy, 41, Kennedy's special assistant on national security affairs. Yaleman Bundy earned his reputation as a dynamo at Harvard, where he became dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at 34, and, soon afterward, a force on university administration councils. Kennedy is well aware of Bundy's growing prestige and says with a chuckle: "I think I'll continue to have residual functions...
...Switzerland, although the Swiss have made it clear that they are less than pleased. Financier, sportsman, onetime member of the Republican national finance committee, Palm Beach neighbor and old friend of Jack and Jackie Kennedy. Smith was Ambassador to Cuba from 1957 to 1959. An ardent supporter of ex-Strongman Fulgencio Batista, Smith early recognized Fidel Castro as a pro-Communist fanatic but underestimated the strength and public support of Castro's rebel band-an oversight that helped fan the smoldering embers of Cuba's anti-Americanism. Smith left Yale after two years, married Consuelo Vanderbilt...
...last surviving example of the medal-jangling school of self-enriching Latin American dictators is executing a cynical maneuver. After 31 years, the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, a strongman of the extreme right, is turning left. He does so not from conviction, but in an angry tyrant's reaction to the determination of his neighbors-including the U.S.-to be finished with him, and to the mounting desire of his own people to do away with...