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Word: weaponeers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that no rule of law was involved; his bloody vengeance was fully justified. The trouble was the way "enemies" used it to "slander" Cuba. "Never has such an intense and violent campaign of discredit against Cuba been waged throughout the Americas. We must deprive the enemy of his principal weapon of attack." When would "the proceedings" end? Not, apparently, last week. Before Castro's firing squads went another 28 Batista men, bringing the grand total to 451. Among the new dead: the first judge, Arístides Pérez Andreu, president of Batista's Pinar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Talk & the Act | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...laying the foundations for that drive toward national prominence and widespread influence which will bring to the HYDC in the years to come its due recognition." One of Winans' specific objectives is to "acquire sufficient prestige and influence within Massachusetts so as to use our endorsement as a major weapon in the fight for more honest government in the Commonwealth." It is a praiseworthy, but unrealistic hope...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Leadership Elite' Speaks For Political Clubs | 3/27/1959 | See Source »

...himself is no angel. Operating a rumor factory, he has something on everybody ("Everybody knows Manny Davis--except Mrs. Manny Davis"). Yet he appears on television each afternoon, spreading the American Gospel: "Our best secret weapon is D-E-M-O-C-R-A-C-Y." His weakness is his devotion to Suzy, whom he doesn't want to lose. When he finally does, one feels very satisfied...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: The Sweet Smell of Success | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...Army, who point out that BMEWS is not specifically designed to lock into the Army's developing Nike Zeus system, in which antimissiles will be fired automatically at incoming missiles, once detected. But in BMEWS, in the general sense, the U.S. will get a welcome new weapon for the missile gap until more advanced systems of early-warning-and-missile defense become available. Among the wild-blue-yonder possibilities: 1) observation of the Communist land mass from space satellites in the 1960s (see SCIENCE); 2) creation of anti-missile radiation belts-"death rays"-that might make sectors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: 3,000-Mile Watchdogs | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Only the army has successfully resisted Red penetration, and gone over to the attack. Last April General Nasution, who is not so much pro-Western as pro his country's independence, banned the biggest Red weapon-mass demonstrations- and followed it with an order prohibiting strikes. When SOBSI recklessly decided on a test of strength and called a plantation strike in Sumatra, the army swiftly broke it, arrested eight union officers. In central Java last month, police jailed eleven known Communists, seized caches of small arms and munitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Duel | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

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