Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commenting on Communist China's massive effort to herd all China's people into communes. Edward Hunter introduced a new word: insectivization. Said he: "They are insectivizing the whole people, making them into the Soviet man, on the level of the spider, or the ant, the Pavlovian concept, unthinkingly obedient to the master or to instinct...
...Korean government allotted land to a group of refugees who had slipped over the border from Communist North Korea. French's money bought a farm tool set for each family-sickles, hoes, shovels, picks, pitchforks. Then came fertilizer and seed, and a pair of bullocks. French got regular reports from CARE: when the first crops were harvested, when the first houses were completed, what special problems came up. Korea's winter is too harsh for farming, so French bought a machine to make straw rope for the village to use and barter. New Chorwon called it The Graham...
Ambushes & Air Raids. Since 1956 there have been repeated clashes in Tibet between Chinese garrisons and the hard-riding Khamba tribesmen, who boast that they go nowhere without their rifles, which they frequently use on everyone from rich merchants to officials from Lhasa to Communist cadres. Twenty-three years ago, when straggling parts of Mao Tse-tung's Eighth Route Army crossed Khamba territory on the famed Long March to Yenan, Khamba raiders picked off Reds by the dozens. Reportedly, Mao has never forgotten what happened-or forgiven...
...royal manner, De Gaulle was well aware that there was disaffection in his realm. Dryly, he conceded that Communist gains in France's municipal elections (TIME, March 23) stemmed in part from discontent with his austerity program. The press ("Excuse me. Messieurs les journalistes") had not accented the positive about austerity: the franc had been devalued by 17%, yet prices had since risen only 4%. "Now," said De Gaulle proudly, "we can meet any form of public expenditure without inflation. It is 20 years since that has happened. The value of our currency is uncontested in the world...
While Western diplomats and editorialists continued to discuss terms by which Russia might be persuaded to unify Germany, all signs indicated that Khrushchev has no intention of giving up control of his half. Communist economic blueprints under the new seven-year plan point plainly to East Germany's assigned role as the industrial heart of the satellite bloc...