Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like a U.N. debate. Russia's Venerable Lama Jambal Dirji Gomboeve?representing 500,000 Soviet Buddhists living mostly in Asiatic Russia?urged the conference to "condemn provocations against the borders of Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos." Red China and its satellites, which brutally suppressed Buddhism but found plenty of tame monks to collaborate with the regimes, decided to boycott the meeting, charging that it was dominated by the West. Living evidence of Red suppression was the conference's guest of honor, the Dalai Lama, who has been in exile in India since Peking drove him from his Tibetan throne...
Inside the castle's vast Gothic Vladislav Hall, 294 Deputies of the tame Communist Parliament were gathered to elect a new President. For weeks there had been hints that dour Antonin Novotny, 59, who for seven years has been both President and Communist Party chief, might lose the presidency, possibly as the first step to complete oblivion. Once a Stalinist who survived by ruthlessly killing off his rivals, Novotny had become a slavish follower of the deposed Nikita Khrushchev. During the recent Moscow ceremonies celebrating the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Novotny was noticeably absent from the Communist lineup...
...Janeiro's favelas are the dregs of a city, teeming slums where the crime rate makes Harlem tame by comparison. The pastel-painted shantytowns with their deceptive names-"Pleasure Hill," "Peacock," "Heaven"-breed hoods with monikers like "Tidal Wave," "Uncle Horrible" and "Dried Meat...
...Tame Republicans. As usual, the Senate's lopsided Democratic majority could not impose its will without help from tame Republicans. Joining 44 Democratic Senators in voting for the medicare package were New York's Jacob Javits and Kenneth Keating, New Jersey's Clifford Case, Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, and California's Thomas Kuchel. Voting no were 16 Democrats-all Southerners, with the exception of Ohio's Frank Lausche-and 28 Republicans, including G.O.P. Presidential Nominee Barry Goldwater, who flew in from Phoenix to cast his "nay," then flew out again...
...police pickup truck, was a bloated yellow corpse, covered with flies. The display, on view for 24 hours and set up just 15 days after Haiti kicked off a major tourist campaign, was one more warning from Dictator François Duvalier to his fellow Haitians: stay tame, or else...