Word: leftists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that trials are still being held for repatriated pro-Stalin Yugoslavs, hundreds of whom Tito is said to have jailed. A later report that cropped up in Warsaw-that the Soviet Central Committee was circulating a letter describing Tito as no Marxist-Leninist, but one of those hated leftist Social Democrats*-seemed to confirm a growing rift between Yugoslav and Soviet Communists...
...last year the old leaders began creeping back from Red China. Sanzo Nozaka returned, declared himself successor to Party Secretary Kyuichi Tokuda, who had died in Peking in 1953. Nozaka lost no time in cutting Shida down to size. "There has been ultra-leftist adventurism," he cried, and prescribed a policy of nonviolence and a popular front with the Socialists. Suddenly Shida disappeared. For nearly nine months nothing more was heard...
Having won a large bundle at the races, Australian-born Harry Bridges, boss of the leftist International Longshoremen's Union, celebrated with two lady friends at a San Francisco nightclub, was set upon by two seamen when he repaired to the men's room. Bridges suffered a black eye, puffed cheekbone, kicks in the head, stomach and groin. Said Nightclub Owner Sally Stanford, famed as the onetime owner of San Francisco's flossiest brothel, after having the attackers arrested: "I was shocked at the language used by these two characters." Said Bridges: "I'm used...
...forces, united only by their interest in fishing in troubled waters. Indian Communists, who a few weeks earlier had been denouncing the Gujaratis as "moneybag oppressors" of the Marathas, now rushed to champion the Gujarati cause. Local Socialists jumped on the bandwagon. And huffing and puffing alongside these leftist troublemakers were Gujarati businessmen and mill owners who foresaw difficulties in handling Maratha labor in a state dominated by Maratha voters. Between them, these strange allies produced a breakdown of law and order in Ahmedabad...
...fight his way. Slight (5 ft. 4 in.), nearsighted and mild-mannered, he has endured war and exile, and led a bloody revolution. At 20 he was wounded in Bolivia's Chaco War with Paraguay. At 27 he helped found the Movement of National Revolution (M.N.R.). the mildly leftist party that now runs Bolivia. During the next decade he was exiled twice by anti-M.N.R. governments, fled the country twice more to escape imprisonment. In 1951 he slipped back into Bolivia from exile to direct the campaign that brought a plurality that year to exiled M.N.R. Presidential Candidate...