Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arriving in Quito, Ecuador's Foreign Minister faced expulsion from his strongly anti-Communist party. In Rio the anti-Castro press was in an uproar and a group of Deputies wanted to haul Foreign Minister Francisco San Thiago Dantas on the carpet to explain himself. Nowhere was the clamor louder than in Argentina, where the outraged leaders of the three military services threatened to overturn the government of President Arturo Frondizi...
...Position. Throughout the uproar, and despite grave misgiving (see PRESS), the U.S. Government held to its policy: Tshombe must end his secession and recognize the central government for the greater good of the Congo as a whole, not to mention the peace of Africa...
...Trujillo Jr., be forced to give up the reins of government and clear out of the country. Last October U.S. planners thought that they had worked out a way to have democracy and Trujillos as well. Last week the plan suddenly went sour, and in the midst of the uproar, young Trujillo quit as head of the armed forces and reportedly left the country...
Meanwhile, someone on one ship or the other has tossed a tomato onto the other deck, and soon our crewmen are being actively besieged by tomatoes. Our mate is incensed, "Provocation, aggression!" he screams, and the crew sets up an uproar about "standing firm" and "teaching those hoodlums a lesson" and "we're ready for anything." Another tomato splats in front of our mate and we open fire, Immediately the other ship returns the barrage. When the dust clears, it is apparent that both ships are sinking...
...uproar started when the anti-Castro underground circulated copies of what it said was a new decree soon to come from the government. Under the decree, all children would remain with their parents "until they are three years old, after which they must be entrusted for physical and mental education to the Organization de Circulos Infantiles"-Castro's network of state nurseries. Children from three to ten would live in government dormitories in their home provinces, would be permitted to visit their families ''no less than two days per month." But those older than ten would...