Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Organization). But SWAPO, a radical guerrilla group backed by Angola, is excluded from Pretoria's independence plans, and has vowed to fight until it can bring about a government of its own. At the U.N., South Africa has thus far escaped efforts by black Africa-supported by the Communist bloc-to impose an arms embargo against it and a ban on foreign loans and investment; but that fight is likely...
Worthy returned to Boston in 1957 and attended Harvard as a Neiman Fellow, but he continued his drive to gain access to restricted countries. While he was at Harvard, a Western Union cablegram informed him that the Communist Chinese government had approved his visa application to visit Peking. He left immediately, without receiving the required State Department validation whose China policy played on the fears of uninformed Americans would never approe his trip. Worthy and two Look Magazine reporters spent 41 days in China, sending back daily reports to an enthralled public...
...instance, the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee issues agricultural instructions in general terms, and the villagers modify them to fit local conditions, Fairbank said, adding that this system is "not at all centralized...
Mother Kusters is anxious for change, though, and finds the slowness of the Communist plan disillusioning. She is persuaded by an anarchist to take more direct action and stages a sit-in at the magazine office which misrepresented her husband. Her two fellow anarchists are anxious for dinner, however, and leave Mother K. sitting alone on the floor. Finally, the night watchman asks her to leave so he can lock-up. He invites her home for a dinner of "Heaven and Earth" (German sausages and apple dumplings) and she leaves with him. He has told her exactly what she wanted...
Died. Leroy Gore, 73, self-described "thoroughly conservative Republican country editor" of the weekly Sauk City (Wis.) Star who was alarmed by Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist excesses, started an unsuccessful "Joe Must Go" drive in 1954 and lost his newspaper after being harassed by local authorities; of emphysema; in Jefferson...