Word: communale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Communist Victory. Her hopes were rudely rebutted by the results. They showed that Indian voters are increasingly disenchanted with the Congress Party, and are voting along communal and regional lines (see following story). Another lesson: the small parties, once lost among the myriad of India's miniparties, have a chance of defeating the Congress monolith if they join electoral alliances. In the fertile northeastern state of Bihar, where the small parties failed to unite, no single group emerged with enough strength to form a government. As a result, the Congress Party, which ended up 42 seats short...
...nearly 3,500 were under arrest. Only eight days before, Moslems across the subcontinent in Calcutta, angered by what they felt was a newspaper's slur of Mohammed, exploded in a brief outburst of violence that cost five lives. The two clashes were the latest manifestations of the communal hatreds that have plagued India for generations-and are the chief obstacles to the long-cherished dream of Indian unity...
...Mumford, the city seems a place where a nineteenth century man--rural, self-sufficient, intellectual--can reach some sort of compromise with modernity. Many young people, however, seem to see positive values in the chaos and closeness of city--a chance to meet other people, and share an almost communal experience...
...servants labor side by side with students, encouraged by the steady beat of the Brincos, the Latin Beatles, as it blasts from Radio Cordón. Habaneros repair to the Cordón for so-called "guerrilla weekends" of tackling weeds, in line with Fidel's plea for communal work and "true, fraternal, humane Communism." Dirty boots, rolled-up sleeves and talk of agriculture are marks of honor in today's Cuba, even in the cities. Dairy farms equipped with modern machinery have sprung up-Havana province alone has 25 under construction-and highly scientific livestock breeding...
...free, high-energy source that will drive us wild into the streets of America yelling and screaming and tearing down everything that would keep people slaves," says their 26-year-FRIEDMAN old manager and mentor, John Sinclair, who also runs the group's hippie-style communal household in Ann Arbor, Mich. Sinclair and the MC5 are self-styled "musical guerrillas," who flaunt their memberships in a minuscule left-wing organization called the White Panther Party (sample plank in its platform: "Total assault on the culture by any means necessary including rock 'n' roll, dope and obscenity...