Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More practical than Douglas' speech was a piece of blunt advice relayed to Ike from Capitol Hill Democratic leaders: the President ought to set aside two 15-minute periods a week for talking to individual Republicans, face to face or by telephone, to jack up congressional support in his own party for reciprocal trade...
...nations under attack by any country controlled by international Communism. Said Dulles: "The Baghdad Pact group of countries can be confident that mobile power of great force would, as needed, be brought to bear against any Communist aggressor." By the five pact members, this was taken to mean instant support from Sixth Fleet planes and SAC bombers...
...Western Lebanon, newspapers were quick to praise the unity move. In Jordan, where rabidly Arab-nationalist Palestinians comprise two-thirds of the population, wily Strongman Samir Rifai publicly proclaimed: "We support every effort to achieve this sort of union," then dashed for Saudi Arabia to urge King Saud to meet with Jordan's King Hussein and Iraq's King Feisal to form a counter-federation of the three kingdoms. Feisal was willing, but Saud...
...thus represented to despairing Hungarians a glimmering hope of a better Communist leadership. Kadar soon destroyed what hope there was. His guarantees of democratic reforms never came through; vows of amnesty for revolt heroes were broken in a blood bath of summary trials; the workers' councils got promised support just long enough to identify and destroy their leaders. All that remained of Kadar's reputation was a sickly stench. Last week the Russians replaced Kadar with Dr. Ferenc Munnich, 72, Moscow-line former Secret Police boss...
Unlike his fellow neutralist Nehru, who abominates home-grown Communists, Banda gave the full scope and support of his office to the island's most militant Marxist, shock-haired Agriculture Minister Philip Gunawardena, 58. A shouting, sarong-clad union boss who learned his leftism in the U.S.-at the University of Wisconsin and in Manhattan's Union Square-Gunawardena built his power month after month. By tying up island transport in incessant union warfare against rival Marxists, Gunawardena drove Banda to nationalize all buses Jan. 1. Later in the month, after even rougher bullyboy tactics by Gunawardena...