Word: leftwards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration. Thailand suggested that it might order the U.S. to stop using that nation's airfields for munitions flights to Cambodia and to withdraw all military missions in Thailand within a year. In Western Europe, where U.S. strategic interests are far greater, the government of Portugal turned more leftward, possibly jeopardizing the future of U.S. bases in the Azores and Portugal's commitments to NATO...
...between President Ford and Republican Senators. But last week, when nine members of the Senate's conservative steering committee were ushered into the Oval Office, the mood was solemn. The Senators, led by Idaho's James McClure, were there to deliver, in effect, an ultimatum. Stop your leftward slide, they warned the President, or we will stop supporting...
...wartime capital of Chungking. After the Communist seizure of power in 1949, Chou began building the state bureaucracy, traveling abroad, officiating at countless party meetings, mass organizations and the State Council. Most important for his survival, he knew how to maintain a low profile whenever Mao swung China violently leftward. These were dangerous periods for the country's pragmatists, who were vulnerable to the charge of lacking revolutionary ardor. When the radical mood had spent itself and the need for retrenchment became obvious, it was always Chou, with his unparalleled administrative skills and the allegiance of the party bureaucracy...
...previous [pre-April 25] government was an extreme right-wing dictatorship," he told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott before he left Lisbon. "Thus the present government will have to maintain its rudder on a leftward course. That is imperative. If we have only one year to rid ourselves of a half-century of extreme reaction, what climate do you think we should create to guarantee victory for any democratic party?" He added: "Portugal has already confirmed several times its respect for international treaties to which it is committed. There is not the slightest intention of considering leaving NATO...
...military made a mess of the Cyprus situation and the economy. Now they want the civilians to clean it up." Certainly, if the civilian government disintegrates into the bickering factions that paralyzed it in the three years before the 1967 coup or seems to be moving too far leftward, the officers would probably take over again...