Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aware that a Communist President was not in the cards despite the party's growing national acceptance, the Communists were willing to promote Pertini out of leftist loyalty. In addition, the avuncular, pipe-smoking Socialist, a former speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, was acceptable to the centrist Republicans and Social Democrats who complete the five-party parliamentary majority that supports the government of Christian Democratic Premier Giulio Andreotti...
...Marxist state. Aden has replaced the Somali port of Berbera as the chief Russian naval base in the area. Soviet air force planes use the former British airstrips at Ras Karma and Muri. Large underground arms depots have been constructed to store weapons that can be rushed to pro-Communist movements in black Africa...
...late July and early August, Havana will be host to 16,000 Communist and left-wing students from around the world (including 400 Americans) at a World Youth Festival dedicated to the theme of "anti-imperialist solidarity." Brigades of volunteers from the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, as Cuba's auxiliary political watchdog apparatus is called, are working six days a week to spruce up the capital for what promises to be a giant pep rally on behalf of national liberation movements-and, by implication, on behalf of Cuba's own policy of armed intervention...
Just War. "Some Catholics have argued that given the advent of nuclear weapons, there can no longer be a just war, and that pacifism can be the only Christian response. It is easy to argue such a position when the American nuclear umbrella keeps one out of a communist concentration camp...
...postwar epoch was not clear and the artist continued to compose. His underground newspaper was called Combat. That might have served as the subtitle for all of Camus's work. He tried the Communist Party and found it guilty of hypocrisy. He refused to endorse extremist positions on either side of the Algerian struggle for independence. "I must condemn a terrorism which strikes blindly in the streets ..." he declared, "and which one day might strike my mother or my family. I believe in justice but I will defend my mother before justice." The famous phrase caused Camus...