Word: leftwards
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...Israelis are "thoroughly aware" that they underrated the Arabs both militarily and in their efforts to isolate Israel politically, and this has led to a leftward move in Israeli policy toward a more dovish political stance vis-a-vis the Arab countries, several members said...
Although many, if not most of its future goals were unclear, the junta made unmistakable its determination to change the leftward course of Allende's foreign policy. One of its first acts was to break relations with Cuba, which Allende had recognized soon after his inauguration, in defiance of the Organization of American States ban. A few hours after Allende died, 150 Cubans were hustled to Santiago's Pudahuel airport and put aboard a plane for home. Among them was Allende's daughter Beatriz, who is married to the first secretary of the Cuban embassy...
...recently as 1960, a majority of the undergraduates here were Republicans, but the flow of events in the sixties steered the entire campus quite a few degrees leftward, situating most students at a point on the political spectrum where they could be attracted to support radical campaigns, particularly those concentrating...
...then the sixties came, and the paper's politics drifted slowly leftward until The Crimson published an editorial on October 15, 1969 that made headlines in Paris--"Support...
TIME has learned that an IRS Special Services Group, set up in 1969 at the White House's request, has collected files on 3,000 organizations and 8,000 individuals-not all of them radical, though the tilt is definitely leftward. While many of the persons and groups listed have tax violations on their records, others have nothing substantial lodged against them. A top-level IRS memo indicates that "a great deal of material has not been evaluated...