Word: yokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regime. As I will try to show, the governments as well as the workers and peasants of Latin America are firmly behind the Cuban Revolution and Castro. Indeed, there are not a few people in certain countries of Latin America who wish that they too could throw off the yoke of a tyrannical government...
...Havana's underground, the anti-Red Popular Revolutionary Movement, headed by Castro's former Works Minister Manolo Ray, issued a manifesto: "Under the pretext of freeing us from Yankee imperialism, we have been encircled with the yoke of Russian imperialism. Cubans! Rescue the Revolution from those who have betrayed...
...once-free Cuban press, like all institutions under Castro, is now only an unprotesting spoke in the grinding wheel of the regime. So far, seven newspapers have been shut down or expropriated; the rest are under government yoke. For uncensored news a growing number of Cubans this week were listening to an underground voice from the distance: a Cuban press-in-exile composed of three formerly leading Havana dailies, now written in Miami by refugee newsmen and smuggled back into Cuba through ingenious clandestine channels...
...under Cyrus. As soon as he succeeded to his father's throne, the fledgling King whose "close-cropped hair was tawny as a lion's" threw off the yoke of the luxury-loving Medes, but tolerantly let Astyages live out his life in a pleasant alcoholic haze. When fabulously rich Croesus of Lydia rashly decided to march against the upstart, he did so on the ambiguous advice of an oracle: "If you cross the river Halys, you will destroy a great empire." The empire Croesus destroyed was his own. but he too found himself quite content to serve...
...opened this week by Vice President Nixon. While SEATO strategists were discussing the Red Chinese menace, the U.S. Air Force announced that it was getting ready to deploy a striking force of 120 supersonic jet fighters and other aircraft on maneuvers in Thailand, Formosa and the Philippines. Operation "Mobile Yoke," said the Air Force, was planned six months ago, just happened to be announced in a week when Communist artillery started firing...