Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seem, to the peasant, entirely substantiated by the presence of American military personnel in all parts of the country. And in history of American military aid to the French in the Indo-Chinese war prompts many of the Vietnamese to consider America as heir of French colonialism and the unpopular Pres. Diem as its puppet emperor...
...village have been won, the Viet Minh use social pressures or terrorist sanction to enlist the support of the rest. By carefully choosing their targets of assassination, the Viet Cong guerillas combine political and military maneuvers. (If the 1500 killed a month by guerillas, a good many are unpopular local officials...
...ablest executives, failure to win over a majority of Courtaulds' stockholders marked a sorry setback. At his own stockholders' meeting last week, he was assailed with cries of "dictatorial" and "little Napoleon." But the businessmen of the City of London had by no means written Chambers off. Unpopular as they were, his tough tactics had won I.C.I, so big a stake in Courtaulds that many Britons believed that Courtaulds' management will ultimately feel obliged to agree to closer ties with I.C.I, in artificial-fiber production...
...with the French. Americans turned then quite naturally to the certain anti-communism and Western orientation of Catholics who composed a great majority of the million Northern refugees who flooded Saigon during those months. Diem was the most politically viable representative of these. Although placed in power by the unpopular Bao Dai regime, he had long been a nationalist in exile, known to a small minority for his opposition to Bao Dai's cooperation with the French...
...school and college shelter program that Carlino helped get enacted last year. The source of the charges was a political oddity: Manhattan's Freshman Democratic Assemblyman Mark Lane, 34, a shaggy lone wolf who is as popular with his liberal Yorkville and East Harlem constituency as he is unpopular with his colleagues on both sides of the Albany aisle. "Mark," says a friend, "sees himself as a beplumed knight on a white charger whenever he undertakes a cause." Lane has undertaken plenty of causes: from his law office he has handled hundreds of cases-often without...