Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Radio Free Europe decided it was safe to reopen the cafeteria, and on the RFE bulletin board, Director Hazelhoff described the affair of the poisoned salt shakers as a "dramatic illustration of deep Communist concern about the effectiveness of our broadcasts," which would hopefully cause all in this "front line" to "redouble our efforts in a mission proved of crucial importance...
...Communists claimed that the farmers' pastures had been very dry. The farmers growled that the Communists' planning had been all wet. Somehow or other, so much of Poland's livestock had been shipped to market last season that the country was fresh out of meat. Such belated measures as rationing meat and importing 20,000 tons of Soviet beef had not ended the meat shortage (TIME, Oct. 12), and last week, as the crisis got worse, Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka and his ministers were trying every desperate trick. They convicted 101 official state slaughterers of black-marketing...
Overnight, Poland's Communist dialectic became dietetic. "Many doctors recommend eating horseflesh," said Radio Warsaw, "since it has great curative powers. It helps relieve pains of older people. The meat, though sweet, tastes not unlike beef." Other broadcasts warned of the dangers of cholesterol in beef. Warsaw's Trybuna Ludu sang the praises of the Tartar, an all-horse-meat restaurant that was opened with much fanfare in Rzeszow. "People are going in droves to the Tartar," claimed Trybuna Ludu. "Its varied menu shows what can be done with horse meat...
...Iraqi party that supports Kassem's home and foreign policies without giving allegiance either to Cairo or to Moscow is the National Democratic Party. Since last summer the National Democrats have been fighting a fierce battle with the Communists for the loyalties of Iraqi farmers. The Communists won the first skirmish by getting a Redlined onetime hospital orderly elected to the presidency of the National Federation of Peasants' Associations. But the farmers thereupon deserted the Peasants Federation. Last week, in defiance of the Federation, the National Democrats led more than 100,000 Iraqi farmers and peasants past...
...Japanese behest and has no love for them either, has all along insisted that Japan must pay him compensation for taking the Koreans in. One big reason: he already has more manpower than he can find jobs for. In contrast, Kim II Sung's devastated and manpower hungry Communist North Korea is eager to take in all the Koreans it can find...