Word: leftism
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...much this has affected profits is hard to tell because Italian industrialists are experts at that old European game of "cooking the books"-keeping three sets of accounts, one for the tax collector, one for the stockholders, one for the company itself. But businessmen are concerned by the increasing leftism of Premier Fanfani and the nationalization of the electric power industry. Italy's industrial output is a remarkable 12% higher than a year ago, but manufacturers' new orders are slumping. Top Italian Economist Livio Magnani talks like a New Frontiersman: "We are going through a period of stagnation...
...provinces, he preaches much the same economic and social reform as does APRA, draws huge crowds from all those who hate and fear APRA. His opinions about the rabid left hardened abruptly a fortnight ago when he got beaned by a Castroite rock and angrily disavowed "all forms of leftism." His supporters argue that in a sorely divided nation he would have the easiest road to travel as President, since he is the most acceptable to all factions. Nor can the third candidate be written off. Ex-Dictator Odria, now 64, has the backing of the military, some businessmen...
Left wingers--"Fabians and Keynsians" have turned the Economics Department into a "virtual Keynsian monopoly," the report claims. Citing Seymour E. Harris, Alvin H. Hansen, and other professors of Economics by name, the study points to the Department as "the breeding ground of much of the leftism in Harvard...
...Nicaragua, Guatemala, Uruguay, Paraguay, El Salvador and Colombia-was willing to go along with the U.S. in a specific denunciation of Russian and Communist Chinese intervention and of Cuba for inviting it. Other foreign ministers-from Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Honduras and Ecuador-were moved by their own leftism, by fear of disappointing masses back home who hero-worship Castro or by fear of seeming subservient to the U.S. They favored a resolution mildly deploring outside intervention...
...When a school was needed to teach peasants to read and write, Che organized it. If a situation called for a revolution ary expert, Che knew how it had been done in Bolivia or Guatemala. Through the long evenings, without ever appearing to contradict, Che encouraged Castro's leftism, planted the seeds of a deep-cutting and basic grab for power...