Word: imperialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonexistent Ally. While his nation suffered, Yemen's President Sallal was on a triumphal tour of the Middle East. Though plagued by conspiracies at home-he crushed two "imperialist" plots in his own regime before leaving-Sallal got tremendous ovations from street crowds in Damascus and Baghdad. In lordly style, he urged the Baathist leaders of Syria and Iraq to disperse the "summer cloud" of their differences with Egypt's Nasser, and grandly offered the virtually nonexistent Yemen republican army as an ally in repulsing "Zionist and imperialist aggressors...
...material progress is no moral justification for a regime, even if its leaders have managed to acquire widespread popular support. Hitler, after all, built good roads and won himself some elections. According to Snow, however, the Chinese government has demonstrated neither the brutality nor the imperialist tendencies of a fascist state. National pride is widespread, to be sure, and, after ten years of indoctrination, so is widespread belief in the eventual triumph of world communism. But according to all the official propaganda, at least, this does not mean Chinese or Russian territorial expansion. The Chinese intend to aid and encourage...
...local Communists, the only group still supporting the discredited Kassem regime, were being stridently urged by Moscow's powerful Arabic voice in East Germany to "struggle against the fascist imperialist regime now foisted on Iraq." Some Communists responded by sniping from rooftops, but their organization had suffered a devastating blow. Hundreds of the dogged men with green armbands, carrying mimeographed lists of Red leaders complete with home addresses and auto license numbers, methodically hunted down the Communists, who had grown strong in Kassem's final months. By last week the new regime had killed or jailed nearly...
...hard. His "insulting attitude" toward the security official was bad enough, huffed an editorial in Izvestia. Worse, said the paper, "it is altogether unclear how a Soviet writer contrives not to see the striking social contrasts and class contradictions of American life and the military psychosis fanned by imperialist circles." Nekrasov's error was in trying to give a balanced picture-''black and white sides of American life on a fifty-fifty basis." This, ruled Izvestia, was nothing short of "bourgeois objectivism." More than that, concluded Izvestia, Nekrasov by implication "applied his fifty-fifty rule to matters...
...whether in exchange for some slight gain we have only prolonged the agony. So far, all that has happened is that a confrontation has been avoided." Taking the Chinese "war is inevitable'' position. Che went on: "The Cuban revolution has shown that in conditions of imperialist domination such as exist in Latin America, there is no solution but armed struggle. Cuba has shown that small guerrilla groups, well led and located at key points, can act as a catalyst of the masses, bringing them into mass struggle. We say that this can be done in a large number...