Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tocsin criticized U.S. support of the Ngo Dinh Diem government, calling it unpopular and dictatorial. The group said that self-determination should be the first goal of American policy in South Vietnam...
Most of the student groups which invited Wallace cited the need to allow expression of all views, no matter how unpopular. But Yale's Dwight Hall, a student religious and social service organization, contended that "the issue of academic freedom is not in contention...
...quarrel with the British occupation officials, firing off a strong protest against the suspicion with which they viewed all Germans. Her letter came to the attention of a lawyer named Gerd Bucerius-himself a mettlesome man, who had spent most of the war years in Nazi Germany at the unpopular task of defending Jews in court. Bucerius, who was then getting ready to launch Die Zeit, recognized a kindred spirit and hired the Grafin at once...
...slip from its hands under the martial law proclamation. Taking over the functioning of all government ministries, the army for the first time has a viable power structure of its own. It may well stay loyal as long as Diem remains in the presidential palace, but Nhu is vastly unpopular with most of the military commanders except Tung. The army immediately tried to dissociate itself from the Buddhist crackdown. All official bulletins from the army-controlled government information center pointedly mentioned that Nhu's special forces, and not the army, had wrecked the pagodas...
...most unpopular point on the triangle is Brasilia, which only six years ago was nothing but wilderness and a gleam in the eye of then President Kubitschek. Now it is a city of architectural splendor and 300,000 people, most of whom would rather be somewhere else. Housing is scarce, and so is night life. About one-third of the 475 Congressmen and Senators still maintain homes in Rio, a few war ministry bureaucrats even commute daily from Rio, and the foreign ministry, still based in Rio, keeps only a handful of clerks in Brasilia...