Word: leftist
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...left no doubt about a shift in priorities since the death of its first and legendary director, J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover liked to put emphasis on the showy crimes of his youth: bank robberies and kidnaping. In the political area, he concentrated on spies and groups that he considered leftist. He did not at all mind his agents picking up scandal, mostly sexual, about members of Congress; but he filed it away to use as a club over legislators' heads, sometimes even informing the Congressman of what he knew (promising as a favor to keep it quiet...
...Tinker Bell story first appeared in the leftist weekly New Statesman, which two weeks ago began publishing a serialized expose by Journalist Duncan Campbell, 27. His most startling claim was that the government tapped phones, bugged hotel rooms and even monitored diplomatic communications of delegates to last fall's Lancaster House Conference on Zimbabwe Rhodesia; this surveillance, he contended, was "authorized directly" by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, who won wide acclaim for his deft performance as conference chairman. Though all delegations were monitored, Campbell wrote, particular attention was paid to Patriotic Front Co-Leaders...
...jobless can only add to the tensions that have made political violence a way of life with an average of eight to ten killings a day. Mindful of the military's recent warning that it would move in unless terrorism is controlled, police last week arrested 98 suspect leftists in a four-province sweep. To little avail: in Istanbul, a leftist group set fire to eight banks...
...humiliating defeat for Callaghan, Labor's 29-member National Executive Committee voted not to publish a report documenting plans by a cadre of Trotskyite zealots to infiltrate the party. The N.E.C. also reneged on a promise to replace some leftists with moderates on a special committee that is studying the organization and finances of the party, and it restored to good graces a militant leftist who had been expelled for radical activism. Moderate Laborites were outraged. Neville Sandelson, a Member of Parliament for nine years, charged that the N.E.C. had "given their approval and support to subversive and diseased...
Labor's N.E.C. is dominated by leftists; their guiding light is proletarian aristocrat Tony Benn, an M.P. who aspires to succeed Callaghan as party leader. The internecine squabbling has led to fear that the party could split into two irreconcilable segments: a centrist group of Social Democrats, some of whom favor an alliance with the Liberal Party, and an openly leftist party that would tolerate the Red Moles and other extreme Marxists. A poll by the London Times showed that 54% of Britons favor a new centrist party in the political lineup. The N.E.C.'s high-handedness...