Word: pro-communist
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...fury it has not shown since the summer rioting of 1965. "Any persons who may contemplate setting up a dictatorship here," bellowed the elder Papandreou, "should know that the people, the army and even the rocks in the streets will rise to crush their heads." Editorialized the pro-Communist newspaper Avgi...
...rebels and through gunfire to meet the warring politicos and cajole them into signing a ceasefire. Later he served as mediator during the cliff-hanging months before President Joaquín Balaguer's inauguration. Bunker's patience won him the esteem of all Dominican factions save the pro-Communist Castroites, who called him El Pato Macho del Mangoneo (The Top Banana of Machinations). Said Rebel Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deño: "I have the respect for that man that I have for my own father." Caamaño's archrival, General Antonio Imbert Barreras, agreed...
...hardware. He is a noble, rugged, beer-drinking type who had fought against Hitler and Franco, and his consort is a very nice schoolteacher married to someone else. The jilted husband sets Security on the coup!e. It is a setup calculated to have the bleachers cheering as the pro-Communist pair outwit the villainous security men. The proletarian hero investigates the investigators and exposes his three persecutors as 1) the husband of a convicted shoplifter and father of a reefer-drag ging beatnik son, 2) a collector of fancy ceramics specializing in Victorian toilet bowls, and 3) a queer...
...Greece." She worked as a nurse during World War II when the Nazis took over the paper; after the war, she started her column, which soon became one of the most popular in Greece. A conservative who likes to needle the left, she once made fun of a prominent pro-Communist Deputy in Parliament who loves the good life enough to own a house, a yacht in Athens and an apartment in Paris. When she suggested in a subsequent column that the Deputy did not even believe in Communism, he angrily threatened to sue, and other left-wingers cheered...
Even if he had gone further, his testimony would hardly be an indication of "pro-Communist leanings," and even if one could prove these leanings, they would not necessarily justify keeping track of his activities abroad. Such a move should be based on something more than the way a man leans...