Word: leftists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointment ended a six-day crisis set off by Hussein's ouster of Prime Minister Suleiman Nabulsi, a moderate Leftist who headed the powerful National Socialist party. Nabulsi is included in the new Cabinet as a concession to the party, which controls 13 seats in the 40-man Parliament. But no other National Socialist is included...
...week's end no tanks had yet attacked the capital, and, in open defiance of Leftist Serraj, Foreign Minister Salah Bitar announced that he had asked ex-Congressman James Richards, Ike's special ambassador to the Middle East, to visit Damascus to explain the advantages of the Eisenhower Doctrine. At this point, Colonel Serraj no longer walked like the undisputed king of the jungle...
...election, the Pandit might perfectly well have stayed at home. There was no doubt whatever that Nehru's Congress Party would hold its comfortable majority in the soo-seat Lok Sabha (India's lower house of Parliament). The three main opposition parties (the rightist Jan Sangh, the leftist Praja Socialists and the Communists) had not put up enough candidates to win even if they swept the field...
With that ill-judged order, Déjoie's prestige began to drop. As it fell, up went the fortunes of another candidate, Daniel Fignole, a leftist spellbinder with a strong latent hold on the lowly blacks of Port-au-Prince. Smoothly maneuvering what he called his rouleau compresseur, a human steam roller of sweating supporters, Fignole pressured the National Assembly as it tried to choose between a "revolutionary" or a "constitutional" successor to the presidency. "A bas Déjoie!" shouted the throng. Déjoie hastily called off the dying strike. Unimpressed, the Assembly chose for provisional...
...effect of the crisis that Déjoie imprudently touched off was to transfer much of his support to Leftist Fignole, and make the government less stable than ever. Moreover the week's tumult crippled the winter's tourist business, Haiti's second after coffee, and hundreds of hotel workers were laid...