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...constitutional guarantees of assembly and free speech, imposed radio and press censorship, suspended the right of habeas corpus and privacy of the home. More than 300 known enemies of the regime were rounded up. And Venezuela's embattled President redoubled his efforts to revoke the congressional immunity of extremist Deputies who have abused it by openly preaching insurrection against the government...
...security approach, but he manages to skirt the basic liberal-conservative clash and to emerge supporting a bigger and better plan "of the individual's choice" with extended coverage to "three million needs people not under social security" and with extended benefits of nursing care. Lodge calls himself "an extremist" on civil rights and demands the promised executive order on federal housing...
...Communist-lining Barisan Socialists, an extremist group that splintered from Lee's own People's Action Party in 1961, had sought to turn the referendum into a protest vote. The Socialists predicted that 70% of the ballots would be left blank, and Peking tried to buy a few votes by dangling hints that it would resume its once large rubber purchases if Singapore stayed out of the new federation. But it was Lee who wound up with 71% of the vote; barely 25% of the 561,559 ballots were blank...
meeting with newsmen, he switched the subject to Democratic extremism. Said he: "Their extremist group is the Communist Party elements. Their problem is in the form of Communism, not in the form of Birchism. That has been historically true. In the last 30 to 35 years, they [the Communists] have worked themselves into positions of importance not only in Government, but into the ranks of the party. I think that Communism is still a problem in the Democratic Party." Was Romney implying that Michigan's Democratic Party is presently infiltrated by Communists? Romney hedged: "It's difficult...
...Faubus' talking about mundane issues is a startling sign, it is only because he believes that he needs a new image. By insisting that he was never an extremist on either side ("I am not a captive of any extremists of any viewpoint"), he is countering the welter of criticism with considerable success. He stands an excel lent chance of winning a majority in next week's primary or, if not then, in a runoff election that would probably follow. Old Tiger Faubus may have lost his teeth, but in Arkansas there seems to be no lion...