Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Escape. In one of the wildest and most sanguinary affairs of the 18-month-old war of terror, Polykarpos Hadjigeorghiu, 25, a top E.O.K.A. partisan with a $14,000 price on his head, escaped for a third time from his British captors. As Hadjigeorghiu was led from prison into the Nicosia general hospital for treatment, three gunmen opened fire in the crowded lobby. One of Hadjigeorghiu's two British sergeant escorts fell, mortally wounded. The other shot two of the assassins dead and bloodied the head of the third with a blow from his emptied Sten gun. A hospital...
...long way from the scowling, black-bearded mudslinger that the Fair Dealing cartoonists had led their readers to expect. Simply and eloquently, he set forth his party's beliefs. "We believe," he said, "that government should be a partner with business and with labor and not a partisan to encourage one to fight with the other . . . We believe in human welfare but not the welfare state. We seek social gains, but we reject completely the well-intentioned but mistaken theories of those who would socialize, federalize or nationalize basic American institutions...
...Just" War. As if taking all this very seriously, that pudgy partisan of peace, Nikita Khrushchev, warned at a Rumanian embassy reception in Moscow that if attacked "the Arabs will not stand alone. It will be a just war, and there will be volunteers." (In the Communist sense, volunteers" are apt to show up in division strength.) Obviously, Khrushchev felt that he could hint at belligerency without risk of war. As things stood, the French and British were likely to shoot only if Nasser closed the canal or committed some fresh outrage...
...reform him." Ike grinned, said no. What he had "very definitely thought" was that, "after one party had been in Washington 20 years . . . that party was really incapable of straightening out" the abuses that were the products of its long tenure. In 1956, Ike predicted in a frankly partisan stance, the Republican platform will reflect "some reorientation" toward "those principles, policies and programs" that will help it in "rebuilding its strength and vigor...
...Detroit), where approximately half of Michigan's voters live. The man: Detroit's respected mayor, Albert E. Cobo, 62, who in 20 years of public life has never lost an election. But before Cobo could take on Williams, he had to prove himself by running his first partisan race against the 1954 G.O.P. gubernatorial nominee, former police commissioner Donald S. Leonard...