Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week in his first interview in years with a U.S. newsman, the New York Times's Benjamin Welles. Shod in high-laced boots, relaxing in a leather chair, onetime Economics Professor Salazar might have been lecturing woolly-headed students. Did he plan economic and social reforms for terror-ridden Angola? "The rhythm of implementation of programs of social advancement will not be slowed down but rather the contrary, if possible . . . It is possible we may have erred on the side of excessive caution and tolerance." If. as Salazar claimed, "the terrorist action was instigated and directed from...
Object Lesson. For Trujillo understood the power of terror. Thousands of opponents perished quietly in SIM secret-police dungeons, in spectacular "auto accidents" and incredible "suicides." Trujillo's avenging arm reached even to the U.S. in the famed 1956 kidnap-murder of Columbia University Lecturer Jesus de Galindez, a bitter Trujillo critic and onetime tutor of the dictator's children. The peak of his terror was reached one October night in 1937, when Trujillo issued instructions to eliminate Haitian squatters along the northwest border. Working nonstop for 36 hours, Trujillo's highly efficient army butchered a reported...
Looking the Other Way. Trujillo horrified many people in the U.S. and Latin America. But he did not rule by terror alone. He had a natural talent for autocratic management. Starting with the 1930 hurricane that destroyed 70% of the capital, Trujillo imposed a rigidly controlled economy that rebuilt the city in short order. When he took power, the republic was burdened by a $20 million unpaid-and unpayable-debt. Trujillo decreed such heavy taxes that the debt was paid off in 17 years...
...best work than simply the brilliant grader--in a word, the Harvard undergraduate." One would not have anticipated, however, the ugly name the Journal slaps on this new beast: "the intelligent specialist non-specialist." Small wonder that these beings have lapsed into scholarspeak--no doubt out of sheer ontological terror...
...other visitors with experiences to tell sought safety in the embassy, Mallin was able to put together the story of Castro's police-state terror during the invasion crisis. Under Dictator Batista, the chivato, or informer, was the object of universal hatred; Castro, in the fashion of Communist and fascist dictators, has turned the government stool pigeon into a national industry. Every block has one. In the great invasion roundup of 250,000 Cubans, the informer was apt to be the untipped janitor, the office wasp, the neighborhood malcontent-all of whom now had their chance for revenge...