Word: anti-imperialist
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...prosperous peasant families, attended middle school in Changsha, the largest city in the province, and a hotbed of radical nationalism. Though Mao was some four years older than Liu, they worked together on a left-wing student magazine, and by his early 205 Liu was a veteran of anti-imperialist student demonstrations. In 1920 a Soviet talent scout, encountering Liu in Shanghai, picked him as one of seven promising Chinese students to attend Moscow's newly opened Far Eastern University...
This flourishing trade has survived war, anti-imperialist revolutions and natural disasters. But last week it was facing a new threat: the wave of civic morality that is sweeping the nations of Southeast Asia with an evangelistic fervor. Imposed from the top, largely by military leaders who have taken over from fumbling and corrupt bureaucrats (TIME, Feb. 9), this Puritan outlook is also rooted in national pride. Evidences of the new morality...
Much of the latest bloodletting results from the aging Imam's efforts to make sure that his favorite son, Seif el Islam el Badr, gets the Imamate when the old man dies. Crown Prince Badr is a nice young man, introduced by Egypt's Nasser to anti-imperialist slogans and Russian technicians, but thus far Badr has displayed none of the bloodthirsty toughness required to seize and keep the Imamate. Three months ago. suffering from arthritis, rheumatism and heart trouble, the Imam traipsed off to Italy for a rest cure, traveling light with only one wife...
...three weeks since he took over as Singapore's first Prime Minister after 140 years of British colonial rule, slim Lee Kuan Yew has not yet justified all the fears of what his leftish People's Action Party might do to capitalism. But as a determined anti-imperialist, Cantabrigian Lee went to work right away on what he thought were imperialism's decadent gifts to Asia. Cracking down on Singapore s boisterous seamy side, Lee banned jukeboxes, closed down some 1,200 pinball machines, and ordered the Singapore radio to stop broadcasting rock 'n' roll...
...dangerous in the world today." But the manner in which the Communists pressed for more power showed that they did not have it yet. At week's end Iraq celebrated the first May Day parade in its history, and the many thousands of Iraqis marching through Baghdad behind anti-imperialist banners was chilling proof of that mob might. But the night before, Kassem made a brief speech saying that he is opposed to political-party activity in Iraq just now-and not ready to take Communists formally into his Cabinet...