Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus did Marchais demonstrate that the motive for his break with the Socialists last fall had more to do with power politics than with ideology. The Communist Party, once the dominant political force on the left, has been overshadowed by the Socialists in recent years. Communist support has remained roughly stable-about 20% of the electorate-but the Socialists have climbed from 5% to nearly 30% since 1969. Marchais obviously felt that it would be better for the left to lose the elections altogether if the Communists could not win on their own terms. Mitterrand was clearly angered...
...past months, Giang and his diplomatic colleagues have undertaken a sophisticated policy that could be called "the two hands of Hanoi." On the one hand, they have waged war; on the other, they have mounted an intensive good-neighbor campaign. Ironically, the war is being waged against Communist neighbor and supposed ally Cambodia, while the peace offensive is aimed at Thailand and other members of ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...
...heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Brash yet amiable, Braden was a spokesman for democratic liberties in the Western Hemisphere, ever on the crusade against dictatorship. In 1940, as Ambassador to Colombia, he managed the firing of pro-Nazi pilots who endangered the Panama Canal. As fervently anti-Communist as he was anti-Nazi, Braden later took a firm cold war stance, calling for a U.S. invasion of Cuba...
...more liberal era, Perez, under the pseudonym "Peridis," finally found his true calling: cartoonist. In Madrid's daily newspaper El Pais he regularly lampoons the pillars of the once untouchable Establishment-from King Carlos to Pope Paul. Some of Peridis' subjects-including both Premier Adolfo Suarez and Communist Party Chief Santiago Carillo-have even written prefaces to the cartoonist's new book, Peridis' Little Political Animals: The Year of the Transition. Why such support? "I don't put hate into my drawings," says Peridis. "Most of my political figures come off in the manner...
...worst mistake of my life." He joined the Ku Klux Klan. He says that back home in Crab Orchard, "everybody was in the Klan?my adoptive father, the minister, the doctors, the judges. I got attracted to the idea of the Klan because it seemed pro-American and anti-Communist...