Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personal Rule: Since his excommunication by the Kremlin in 1948, Tito has developed a home-style Communism, depend ent on secret police and collectivist methods, but with variations characteristic of personal dictatorships. He divorced his second wife in 1947, married Jovanka, a strappingly handsome Partisan half his age, who even in evening dress looks as if she had just taken off her Sam Browne belt. Tito now lives in a palace, drinks the finest wines, hunts boar and drives in a bulletproof...
...that Thomas died of a cerebral injury caused by a fall at a drinking party. Another group hints that Thomas was fatally dosed with morphine by a doctor whom a rival clique had summoned to treat the poet's alcoholic miseries. Dame Edith Sitwell, rising disdainfully over such partisan bickering, has said that Thomas died of an infection caught when he scratched an eyeball on a rose thorn...
...item veto, however, will need more than the support of a few stalwart individuals. Real bi-partisan cooperation will be necessary for the two-thirds majorities required for Constitutional amendment. Since many members of both parties have realized the utility of an omnibus appropriations bill, it is highly likely that Congress will pass the Consolidated General Appropriations Bill. But the legislature must realize that an omnibus bill without an item veto would mean an unbridled budget, running wild under the goadings of pressure groups that won't stop prodding...
...never particularly distinguished herself in anything." But the necessities of war and the peculiar demands of Communist ideology brought out unsuspected talents in this rural railroad switchman's daughter. By 1941, at the age of 24, mousy little Ljubinka had become one of the chief organizers of Communist partisan resistance in her home area, and, as the years passed and Tito Communism became the law of the land, Ljubinka's gifts carried her to loftier and loftier posts in the party and the government. She became Minister of Education in the Serbian government, a member of the local...
Members of the HYRC, the Young Democrats, the HLU, and the Debating Club have already expressed interest in such a forum. Since none of these clubs exists primarily for the sake of political debate along partisan lines, such an organization would not be competing with them. The elections approaching again next year should generate enough interest among the whole undergraduate body to give a political discussion club a good start. The initiative depends on those who are most intensely interested in politics--the political clubs. If they are willing they can sponsor vigorous forums...