Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immediate independence." For the first time during his African tour, the stony-eyed general was faced with a sign saying "De Gaulle Go Away," and when he tried to speak to a crowd of 15,000 in Dakar's main square, a small but well-drilled group of leftist hecklers all but blanketed his words in catcalls. Snapped the general dryly: "I observe with some satisfaction that this subject seems to be of interest...
...midweek the capitulation came. It was from the presidential palace: a promise by Ruiz Cortines to revoke the fare hikes and appoint a committee including rioting students "to consider all aspects of this complex problem." Even that failed to pacify the students. They sallied out, joined a leftist faction in a street battle for control of the labor union at Pemex, the national petroleum monopoly. The students helped attack Pemex headquarters, retreated when hard-pressed police fired...
...than he blurted that his high blood pressure had little to do with his leavetaking, that he really did not want to resign. The real reason behind his retirement: a continuing clash of personalities and philosophies with his boss, Labor Secretary James Mitchell, whom Wilkins had criticized for giving "leftist labor leaders" too much voice in department policy...
Venezuela came alarmingly close to mob rule last week as ambitious leftist politicians dreamed up an army plot and then loudly put it down with windy proclamations, mass rallies and a general strike. Through three days of crisis, the booming Communist Party played a talented leading role. But conservative military leaders with no plot in mind, kept their tempers down and their tanks in camp and avoided civil...
Britain: Laborites in the House of Commons cried "shame" at word of the U.S. landings, but Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell rejected the demands of leftist Laborites for a Commons vote on the issue of British support. Two days later, when Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced the dispatch of British paratroopers to Jordan, Labor again demanded a vote, and left itself wide open for a shrewd riposte by Macmillan: "If it is not right to vote against America, why is it right to vote against Britain?" The censure of British intervention was defeated...