Word: tyrant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with his name on it. On the third day. Vermont's Winston Prouty, generally considered to be the Republican who was really out after Junior, got a chance to ask some questions. What did Roosevelt do with the $30.000 retainer he received when he was an attorney for Tyrant Trujillo's Dominican Republic regime seven years ago? The money went to Roosevelt's New York law firm, and F.D.R. Jr. got his share as a partner. Anyway, Junior now felt that "I would have been just as well off without that client." What about Junior...
After Stalin's 70th birthday in 1949, it took Pravda 22 months to print all the names of his well-wishers. Last week, on the tenth anniversary of the tyrant's death, there was not a single mention by press or radio of the man Nikita Khrushchev once fulsomely praised as "our great leader, our friend and father, the greatest man of our epoch." In all of Moscow's millions, only a single anonymous soul dared to pay respects-with three rubles worth of yellow mimosa on Stalin's black marble slab near the Kremlin wall...
Jail for the Dog. In Baghdad, new President Aref and his colleagues were too busy learning how to run a country to pay much attention. The slain Kassem, now dubbed "the mad tyrant," had quarreled with all his neighbors. Aref was restoring trade relations with Egypt, imports from Lebanon and exports to little Kuwait, the oil-rich principality Kassem once tried to take over. Tidying up another national problem, Aref sent a helicopter north to pick up two delegates of the Kurdish rebels in the hope that he might negotiate an end to the bloody civil war that has tied...
...past five years, the U.S. has pumped some $43.5 million into Haiti, the small Negro Caribbean country misruled by Strongman François Duvalier. A respected back-country doctor before he went into politics, "Papa Doc,'' as he calls himself, has become a ham-fisted tyrant, illegally perpetuating himself in power. His private army of Tonton Macoutes. meaning bogeymen in Creole, crushes the opposition and shakes down businessmen. The bogeymen even insist on distributing the U.S. gifts of food and taking their cut; the U.S. refuses, and so the food sits rotting in a Port-au-Prince warehouse...
...streets when at 9:30 a.m., a strident new voice on Radio Baghdad began exulting, "This is the voice of the Iraqi revolution!" Accusing "Kassem the dictator" of having "murdered citizens, weakened the army, imprisoned and executed scores of officers," the broadcaster claimed that the rebels "have destroyed the tyrant...