Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...austere, aloof and tense Premier, it had been anything but an easy year. He had kept Iraq from a Nasser takeover, despite anxious moments such as the Mosul revolt in March, but only at the cost of accepting more help from the street-organizing Communists than was healthy. In a characteristic compromise last week before the holiday began, Kassem reshuffled his Cabinet, adding three minor-league Communist sympathizers (including Iraq's first woman minister, a practicing gynecologist), but effectively demoting the once powerful fellow-traveling Minister of Economics Ibrahim Kubba to Minister of Agrarian Reform...
Egypt. Nasser, chastened by forced coexistence with Kassem, and wiser in the ways of Communist purposes in the Middle East, seems less tense than he was, less eager for adventures, more mindful of mending fences and improving the economy at home. The fact that the most pervasive propaganda weapon in the Middle East, Nasser's Cairo radio, now outspokenly attacks the Communists in the Middle East is a gain...
...pardon, which wipes out the penalty, an amnesty expunges the crime. The categories of criminals admitted to amnesty last week included libelers, common thieves, tax evaders, those who have offered "offenses to the head of the state," first offenders serving no more than two years, pornographers, and-most controversially-Communists and Fascists convicted of political crimes during the chaotic years between 1943 and 1946 in Italy. Although political criminals make up no more than 2% of the amnestied, they include the "Red Devil" Moranino (TIME, April 30, 1956), who had taken refuge behind the Iron Curtain...
...Fidel, Himself." The U.S. link to the Cuba furor was the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, chaired by Mississippi's Senator James Eastland. Eastland's witness was Major Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, former head of Castro's air force, who says he was fired for fighting Communist influence in the armed forces (TIME, July 13). Cuba's No. 1 Communist, Díaz Lanz charged, "is Fidel himself." He added that on a trip to Venezuela, he saw Castro go into a hotel bathroom for a private, two-hour talk with Venezuelan Communist Boss Gustavo Machado. Castro...
...President of Cuba had already been picked that afternoon at a secret meeting in Havana's Camp Liberty, with no civilian ministers present. Castro and the band of leftists and Communist-liners who hold down all of the top army jobs vetoed two leading choices as too pro-U.S., voted to hand the presidency to Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, 40, an obscure country lawyer. In his old job as Minister of Revolutionary Laws, Dorticós had the humble job of drafting decrees. In his new job (he cut the salary to $2,500 a month...