Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blackmail & Terror." The U.S. Sen ate convened in a mood of icy anger. California Republican Thomas Kuchel accused Khrushchev of "sham and hypocrisy." Cried Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington: "It has never been clear to me why we should take for granted the fact the Soviets ever stopped testing. Why should we assume they are not testing? . . . Our Allies are watching what we do, not what we say." Backed by a dozen other Senators,* Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd introduced a resolution calling for the U.S. to resume nuclear tests immediately. Stopping the tests in 1958, said Dodd, "was the most fatuous...
Whatever the military reasons for Khrushchev's decision, its timing and tone were clearly designed with the primary and primitive object of creating an aura of terror. The immediate object was 1) to divide and cow the Western powers themselves in the approach to the negotiation table, 2) to frighten the neutrals into clamoring for Western concessions in Berlin at any cost. In fact, he tacitly admitted as much last week to two visiting left-wing British politicians. He told them frankly that he had resumed nuclear testing to shock the West into negotiations on Germany. And, having just...
...little inherent danger in renewed testing itself, particularly if the tests are kept underground. The risk of atomic war still depends, as it has for years, on the simple decision of the man in the Kremlin. What is alarming is Khrushchev's new willingness to flirt with terror. Conceivably, he could misjudge the resolution of the West, and bring on himself and the world a war he never expected. In the weeks and years ahead, the West must steel itself for another kind of test-a test of nerve...
...government, as usual, had its own version of the deaths: Cabrera had made homosexual advances to the "hitchhiker," and the other two men had deliberately assaulted the Sosúa army post in broad daylight. But few Dominicans believed the official version, and perhaps (the uses of terror being what they are) were not expected to. The killings were the ugliest blot to date on the liberalized regime of Ramfis Trujillo, who took over when his dictator father was assassinated three months ago. They were also a reminder that, while Ramfis may have eased things up in the Ciudad Trujillo...
...stiffly to attention, whole truckloads bouncing four feet in the air without change of expression. The romance of war-but only a fool would begrudge us the excitement and the sense of glory, for no one on that plain had wanted war, and all of us had known enough terror to last several lifetimes...