Word: antileftist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uproot them, to transport them to the heart of the jungle, to transform them into prisoners of a delirious faith in a messiah, who in the end would give free rein to his instincts for domination and death for them to become self-destructive robots." Perhaps reflecting a recent, antileftist trend among French intellectuals, the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur thought that the massacre epitomized "the insanity of totalitarianism in the guise of the clerical spirit...
...sense, Samphan's popularity was his undoing. Sihanouk forced him to resign in 1963, charging him with incompetence. Three years later, though, Samphan was elected to the National Assembly. One April evening in 1967, during a peasant uprising in Battambang province that had set off an antileftist witch hunt in the capital. Khieu Samphan simply vanished. According to his family, he told his mother that he was going out for a breath of fresh air before dinner and never came back...
Died. Warren K. Billings, 79, radical labor agitator who was unjustly convicted of planting a bomb that killed ten persons during a 1916 parade in San Francisco; in Redwood City, Calif. Billings and co-defendant Tom Mooney were condemned on testimony that was perjured and heavily biased because of antileftist sentiment. The case provoked a worldwide protest that focused on Mooney, the better known of the two. Billings spent 23 years in prison, where he learned watchmaking. Freed in 1939 and pardoned in 1961, he opened a shop only blocks from the scene of the bombing...
...volleys of tear gas. Suddenly, as if on signal, waves of men carrying bamboo poles and clubs swooped out of gray-painted buses waiting on a nearby street, shouting "Halcones! Halcones! -Falcons! Falcons!" It was the first real show of force by the Falcons, an organization of antistudent, antileftist goons, mostly in their 20s. Their bloodcurdling war cry is likely to echo throughout Mexico for some time to come...