Word: leftists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R.). led by Labor Boss Juan Lechín, who has helped turn Bolivia's biggest dollar earner, tin mining, into a mismanaged, worn-out featherbed for his followers. But last month Siles pushed Lechín to the sidelines by dissolving the leftist-dominated ruling body of the M.N.R. and firing four pro-Lechín Cabinet members. A fortnight ago, 70 mining experts representing both government and labor recommended that the government spend $8,000,000 on a tin-industry face lifting. With Lechín out of the way, the labor representatives also...
...compromise solution by which his Socialists would vote in Parliament for Euratom, but abstain on the Common Market. When proCommunists still insisted on voting against both treaties, Nenni threatened to resign. With elections coming up next year and no leader of his Stalin Prizewinning stature in sight, the leftist Socialists approved Nenni's handwritten resolution, 59 to 13. This proves, said Nenni, that the "Socialist Party is completely separated from the Communists." Almost everyone else in Italy was willing to wait for more conclusive proof...
Deeds & Denials. As soon as the French realized their mistake, they apologized to Chaker, bound him to secrecy in the interest of furthering the negotiations. But Tunisian papers, angry at Chaker's arrest, broke the story; Paris' leftist press picked it up and soon all France was reading about the secret negotiations for peace...
Ever since he became leader of the Labor Party 19 months ago moderate Hugh Gaitskell has been trying to reassure the British public that his party is no longer wildly socialistic-and hoping that the party's left wing would not overhear him and prove him wrong. The leftist followers of Aneurin Bevan suspect Gaitskell of trying to make Labor "not a Socialist Party at all but a mere ginger group for making capitalism work more efficiently and humanely." Last week, after much labor, the party brought forth a manifesto on the subject, which the Economist promptly dubbed "Mouse...
...report, written by young (30) Andre Vial, co-editor of the leftist Catholic weekly Temoignage Chretien (Christian Witness), was directed at the government of Socialist Premier Guy Mollet, but it did not blame Mollet so much as his successor, Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, who was Mollet's Minister of National Defense. Charged I.P.I.: Bourges-Maunoury moved against the press "because of a single political motive: the Algerian affair...