Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that supports Snick by paying most of its legal fees. But while he praises the courage of Snick's members, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins deplores their tactics. "They don't take orders from anybody; they don't consult anybody. They operate in a kind of vacuum; parade, protest, sit-in. How far up the road does that get you? When the headlines are gone, the issues still have to be settled in court...
...Into the vacuum left by the exit of the Portuguese have swept five boisterous, brawling political parties, each hopeful of attracting Indian favors by horror stories of subjugation under the Portuguese. One political leader, J. M. D'Souza of Goa's National Union Party, claims that the Portuguese civil authorities kept a collection of whipping canes, allowed their prisoners to pick the cane with which they were to be beaten. The Portuguese sometimes administered the beatings themselves, he said, but sometimes they were given by native Goans disguised in black masks against the wrath of their victims...
...Washington, which has been working desperately to help the Dominicans rid themselves of the Trujillos without leaving a vacuum for Communism to fill, the compromise seemed a workable answer if not a perfect one. President Kennedy hailed the solution, promised U.S. support in getting the sanctions lifted, increased sugar purchases, and the quick dispatch of Alliance teams to size up the country's development needs...
History of Failure. U.N.-and American-involvement in the Congo was all but inevitable the moment, in 1959, when Belgium hastily and irresponsibly agreed to withdraw from a colony it had never prepared for independence. Into the resultant vacuum were swept a bewildering array of 65 political parties. One dominant-but erratic and unstable-figure emerged: Patrice Lumumba. Head of a shaky coalition regime that took control of the Congo, after free elections, in June 1960, Lumumba favored strong central government. This was anathema to Tshombe. who had no intention of sharing the wealth of his mineral-rich province with...
...took over in the chaotic aftermath of the Indo-Chinese war. The U.S. has argued that some of Diem's highhandedness and autocratic ways are necessary in a country desperately menaced by Communist subversion. Even though without him the situation in South Viet Nam might be a disastrous vacuum, Washington lately has become increasingly disenchanted with Diem...