Word: imperialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Matching our imperialistic impulse, Oglesby continued, is a strong American desire for economic efficiency, obtained by equating public with private interests. "Just as the Inquisition was the Crusades turned inwards, totalitarianism is the logical interior of the mature imperialist state...
...embarrassing start for a trip designed to shine up De Gaulle's image as an anti-imperialist, and heads imme diately rolled. The Governor of French Somaliland was fired, the vice president of the local government council was whisked off for "extended leave" in France, and hundreds of agitators were expelled to the neighboring Somali Re public. Still the riots continued, and last week a disturbed De Gaulle acknowl edged that something might be wrong...
...street signs. The avenue in front of the Soviet embassy was renamed Struggle Against Revisionism Street. The Gate of Heavenly Peace, scene of Communist mass rallies, became The East Is Red-a favorite Mao slogan. Legation Street, location of most foreign embassies in Peking, was changed to Anti-Imperialist Street. The Guards also ordered a change in the traffic lights: green now means stop and red means go because red is the color of the forward-moving revolution...
...purpose of both the festivities and educational campaign is to get out a big vote-which would amount to a defeat for the Viet Cong, who have denounced the election as an imperialist tour de farce. Last week officials announced that 200,000 names have been added to the electoral rolls, bringing to 4,900,000 the number of South Vietnamese registered to vote; the regime will be delighted if the turnout reaches half that number. This, week the campaigning officially begins, which should raise interest even higher...
...1930s holed up in caves and nurtured the revolution that was later to overrun the country. In Yenan, intellectuals served as peasants, peasants as workers, workers as soldiers. Mao's great fear is that young Chinese who, in his words, "have never fought a war or seen an imperialist," will fail to inherit the fiery revolutionary zeal that marked his early followers...