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Word: subverters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the U.S. in 1948 at "an unknown point" along the Canadian border. At home in Russia he left his wife, son, married daughter-possibly as insurance of his loyalty. His mission: ferreting out U.S. defense secrets, especially in atomic energy, by a variety of means-including efforts to subvert key U.S. service personnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Artist in Brooklyn | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Back to Work. A basically soft and kind young man, a devout Buddhist who abhors seeing any of his people suffering, Sihanouk has been through many changes of heart. The whole world cheered the way his representatives at the 1954 Geneva Conference withstood Communist attempts to subvert Cambodia by treaty. Then he fell under Nehru's spell, and hinted darkly that U.S. aid ($120 million in three years) was being used as a device to take over Cambodia. He welcomed Chou En-lai to Pnompenh last November -but then became alarmed at the Communists' evident strength in Cambodia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Tearful Times | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

Militarily, the next try, just three months later, was even less brilliant. The rebels under General Eduardo Lonardi took inland Cordoba, but General Aramburu, attempting to subvert the garrison at Curuzu Cuatia, had to get out afoot when Perón poured reinforcements against him. After three days of fighting, Perón's general staff in Buenos Aires correctly concluded that it could contain the uprising-and it probably would have, except for a rebel admiral named Isaac Rojas, who had commanded the uprising at a naval base, was now heading for the capital in the captured cruiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Rocky Road Back | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Nasser's pledge was certainly not the best or even the most hopeful protection for the ships that sail the Suez. But in cold fact a treaty would be little better than a pledge if he intended to violate and subvert it. The true proof will come in his actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Sailing on a Pledge | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...Soviet rulers now attacking the basic causes of domestic discontent and foreign distrust, or is their purpose merely to allay this discontent and distrust?" The "downgrading of Stalin" and the policy of smiles have not relaxed the Soviet grasp on the satellites, or checked Soviet attempts to subvert free countries and regions, e.g., the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Walking Softly | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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