Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detector tests used by the company to screen job applicants required them to answer such questions as: What are your sex preferences? How often do you change your underwear? Have you ever done anything with your wife that could be considered immoral? Are you a homosexual? Are you a Communist? The union maintains that these questions are invasions of privacy. Says Union Business Manager David Sickler: "When you get through being grilled on that lie detector, you feel dirty...
...finally found ways to ferret out the myriad espionage agents in its midst and plug the embarrassing flow of government secrets to the East. The cheers, it now appears, were premature. Last week the highly regarded Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung revealed contents of a secret Defense Ministry evaluation showing that Communist spying had been far more compromising to West German armed forces-and NATO-than anyone had previously imagined. Specifically, the government document revealed that among the 16 suspects was a trio of former Defense Ministry employees in Bonn who over a period of six years had smuggled photocopies...
...Libya, Algeria and South Yemen. His decision produced a schism as deep as any in the 32-year history of the Arab League. Also, responding to the constant criticism of his initiatives by Moscow, Sadat summarily closed down a number of Soviet consulates and cultural offices. That reduced the Communist presence in Egypt to its lowest level since the days of King Farouk...
...Martha de la Cal, explaining why he had asked for a vote in an attempt to break the political stalemate. "We had to lance the festering wound." A last-minute attempt to save the government failed when Soares' Socialists refused to yield any concessions to the Communists, such as easing up on the government's reclamation of seized lands in the heavily Communist Alentejo province, in exchange for their vote...
...with many regular officers moving to the right. After conservative General António Pires Veloso was recently removed as commander of the Northern Military Region, Oporto, Portugal's second largest city, was racked by violent demonstrations and bombings. In scenes reminiscent of the post-revolutionary turmoil, three Communist headquarters were destroyed...