Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some 15,000 convicted criminals-and perhaps as many as 100,000 offenders still unsentenced-will walk scot-free out of Italy's jails. Unlike a pardon, which wipes out the penalty, an amnesty expunges the crime. The categories of criminals admitted to amnesty last week included libelers, common thieves, tax evaders, those who have offered "offenses to the head of the state," first offenders serving no more than two years, pornographers, and-most controversially-Communists and Fascists convicted of political crimes during the chaotic years between 1943 and 1946 in Italy. Although political criminals make up no more...
Urrutia of late had been trying to act like a President. He vetoed some minor Castro decrees, held up others. He favored going slow with land reform. But to Castro, his most maddening act was his denunciation of Cuba's Communists as "criminals" just when Castro was making common cause with the Reds in a bitter tirade against a committee of the U.S. Senate...
...Chinese people and the Latin American people," said Peking's Mayor Peng Chen at a January rally in honor of Mexico's visiting ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, "have common aspirations and interests in the just struggle against imperialism." More and more, with all the propaganda arts, Red China is trying to make itself the Communist model for Latin America-even at Russia's expense. Last week a team of Chinese "journalists" wound up a successful friendship tour through South America in Havana, where a fortnight ago plans were announced for a Communist-line...
...large, they have found the going good-and said so. Colombia's Congressman Horacio Rodriguez Plata climaxed a Peking banquet by praising China's "defense of peace." Rasped Chile's former Minister of the Interior Guillermo del Pedregal to Peking University students: "U.S. imperialism is our common archenemy...
...China, which has been actively promoting the Latin American tourist trade for only three years, stresses common interests, arguing that the Latin American republics and the "People's Democracy" share colored skin, a yen for industrialization, a mutual distaste for the yanqui. Result: Peking is fast replacing Moscow as the mecca of the Latin left...