Word: anti-communist
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Radio Hanoi has been wooing the Meos for years with Meo-language broadcasts, but the tribe reportedly split into pro-and anti-Communist factions after a quarrel over the division of the opium crop. Colonel Vang and his cousin, Health Minister Touby Lyfoung, lead the loyalist Meos. The Pathet Lao Meos follow Chief Phay Dang, described by Communist Journalist Wilfred Burchett, who once visited him, as "a noble figure with a fine head, the dignity and poise of a great Indian chief...
...while the Pathet Lao were still periodically storming army outposts back in Laos, nobody could explain. The three princes bucked to dreamy King Savang Vatthana the thorny task of picking a coalition government, a procedure that would effectively bypass the National Assembly, where Boun Oum still commands a strong anti-Communist majority. Boun Oum agreed to disown SEATO, which guarantees Laos against outside aggression, and to establish diplomatic relations with Laos' "neighbors," meaning Red China and North Viet Nam. The princes called for new elections and the departure of all foreign troops from Laos. "Details"' were...
...three terms in the state assembly and two in the U.S. House of Representatives-Yorty has changed. But even today, his ideological position remains open to argument. "All the reactionaries call me liberal and all the liberals call me reactionary." says Yorty. "A real liberal is probably the most anti-Communist of anybody, and we're the most hated by the Communists...
...exile Revolutionary Council. At best, the council was a shaky coalition of the leftist People's Revolutionary Movement (M.R.P.) of Engineer Manolo Ray and the more conservative groups behind the Democratic Revolutionary Front (the Frente) of Manuel Antonio Varona. The Frente faction talks wishfully of organizing an anti-Communist crusade of 20,000 Latin Americans to storm Castroland...
Skull-faced Actor Widmark plays a carefree American "adventurer for hire" who is offered $60,000 by the head of an international spy ring. He is to go into Budapest and whisk out a man wanted by the Hungarian government: Walter Rilla, a scholarly, idealistic anti-Communist who smuggles enemies of the state across the border into Austria. The story, filmed in Austria, Switzerland and England, turns on how Widmark finds Rilla while dodging the Hungarian secret police and the Russian army of occupation. Widmark also dallies with Picasso-eyed Sonja Ziemann, who plays Rilla's doughty daughter...