Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fact of Life. During the Stalin era, that hope seemed completely unrealistic. But during the Khrushchev years, the West has slowly, warily concluded that forces of change are at work in the Red world, evidenced by greater emphasis on consumer-goods production, the partial dismantling of the police-state terror apparatus, the parting of the Iron Curtain to permit travel and cultural exchange. From his recent talks with Nikita Khrushchev, Charles de Gaulle brought away a firm impression that Khrushchev now feels compelled to take into account a new fact of life: Soviet public opinion...
...many Western statesmen see it, internal changes have given Khrushchev a stake in international tranquillity. A plunge back into cold war would require a reversal of his "less terror, more consumer goods" policy, and leave the Russian people all the more discontented because they had tasted a little freedom and glimpsed an image of abundance. Accordingly, the argument runs, the forthcoming summit conference may be the beginning of a spell of peaceful negotiation rather than a mere lull between crises. Moscow seemed to echo this springtime mood of the Western world with a Pravda statement that the U.S.S.R. was "prepared...
...issues are not new; the activity on their behalf is. What is there about this year that has made it so fruitful for the political conscience of American undergraduates? Without doubt many factors are involved: the end of the atmosphere of terror that pervaded the McCarthy era, the particularly dramatic circumstances of Chessman’s ninth stay of execution, the appearance of a determined student Negro leadership n the Atlanta sit-in crisis, the fact of an election year. But there might be an underlying explanation for the sudden change in climate which has vastly increased the scope...
...possible for the U.S. to overcome Communist superiority in military manpower without resorting to mass-destruction H-bombs, has long been a hope and goal of U.S. military thinking. Former Atomic Energy Commissioner Thomas E. Murray argues that the only way the U.S. can escape from the "balance of terror" is to shift from reliance on mass-destruction H-bombs to reliance on tactical nuclear weapons. A test ban, he says, would stop development of such tactical nuclear weapons. Many earnest men who might otherwise be willing to go along with a test ban are haunted by the possibility that...
...Congress-the only two groups that can speak for the nation's 9,750,000 Africans. "They want to bring the white government to its knees," cried Minister of Justice François Erasmus before Parliament. "The government has decided to bring a halt to the reign of terror." Next day Verwoerd went a step further, declared a state of emergency in all the major population centers of the nation. It gave the government power to censor the press, close or take over any business, make arrests without warrant, require workers to return to their jobs...