Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said one British official, "the Iraqis can get the arms directly from Communist sources, and we have gained nothing.'' Added another official: "If it is going to be a case of British soldiers or British allies being killed with British arms, then that will come about anyway, because the Iraqi army is now almost entirely equipped with British arms...
Proving that "order and democracy are perfectly reconcilable" is the prime aim of Venezuela's new government-no small feat with Venezuela's record for jackboot rule. But in Caracas, where Communist-led street mobs stoned Vice President Richard Nixon last spring and rumbled menacingly when their candidate lost a free election in December, the new notion is taking hold. In the squat white building that 16 months ago housed the dreaded cops of ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez' Seguridad National, a branch of the Education Ministry was quietly at work last week...
...orderliness, still precarious, is the accomplishment of President Romulo Betancourt, 51, the veteran politician who led Socialist-minded Acción Democrática (A.D.) to victory over a Communist-backed coalition at the polls. Betancourt must still walk a line between the Communists, who wield ominous power with the Caracas street mobs, and the armed forces, intact and distrustful of both A.D. and the Reds...
Frondizi turned his back on his leftist past, turned toward economic orthodoxy. Today the improved climate for foreign investment has resulted in deals for $1.2 billion of new foreign capital, and the Communist and Peronista-run unions have been sharply curbed; e.g., out of 95 labor organizations, four operate under army orders, 13 are run by government interventors...
...difficult task of supplying an answer. Their reply, presented in prime evening time (8 o'clock, E.S.T.), was television journalism at its best-the sights and sounds and sad, bitter memories of a divided city, caught by an accident of history far on the wrong side of the Communist border...