Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with that of 1976. When he came to the White House, Berlin was a flash point for World War III, and there were 500,000 American troops in Viet Nam. There was little American presence or influence in the Middle East outside of Israel, no relations with Communist China, and cold-war jargon dominated any dialogue with Moscow...
...program but feared that it might push Mrs. Gandhi's 20-point program into the background. Other C.P.I, bigwigs urged their party to join the other opposition parties and end its ambiguous policy of "running with the hares and hunting with the hounds." But a hastily organized Communist campaign to enlist popular support by protesting rising prices never got off the ground, and some 100 Communist organizers were arrested for agitating...
...both movies and television, focuses primarily on the men who went to jail for contempt of Congress. These ten - the group included Dalton Trumbo, Ring Lardner Jr. and Director Edward Dmytryk - declined, sometimes indignantly, sometimes bemusedly, to answer the persistent questions of the committee chairman concerning their alleged Communist Party affiliations. "I could answer your question," Ring Lardner told the committee, "but I'd hate myself in the morning." Since Communist Party membership was not illegal, the ten argued - with good reason - that such inquiries were in flagrant breach of the First Amendment. They stood, accordingly, on their rights...
...very human and slightly absurd. A short fund-raising film for the Hollywood Ten, unearthed by Director Helpern, shows the group addressing the camera with starchy informality and faint condescension. But this impression of haughtiness compares favorably with the shrill, uproarious melodramatics of The Red Menace, an anti-Communist crime buster included to illustrate the degree of frenzy that gripped Hollywood. Hollywood on Trial contains no revelations and no tough questions addressed to any faction. It does keep a decent, compassionate political equilibrium, and is to be admired accordingly...
...Abel-McBride forces charge Sadlowski with radicalism. McBride is careful not to call Sadlowski a Communist. "I don't really know whether he is or isn't a Communist," McBride said at a Pittsburgh rally last week. "But I do know he's in bed with left-wingers...