Word: pro-communist
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...Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi returned from a highly successful visit to the U.S., his capital was shaken by the assassination of two U.S. Air Force officers who had been working with the military-assistance mission in Iran. The Shah called the Tehran murders "disgusting " and blamed a group of pro-Communist terrorists, apparently the same clandestine organization that killed another American officer two years ago. In an interview with TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald and Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager at his spacious office in Niavaran Palace, the Shah discussed the incident and a wide range of other topics...
...armies marched in, in August 1968, to crush Czech hopes for a socialism reconciled with democracy, the pity was short-lived. For the Western establishment, detente and attractive trade prospects have superceded the initial expressions of humanitarian sympathy mixed with "red-scare" rhetoric. To people on the left, especially pro-communist intellectuals in Europe, the more blatantly violent repression under right wing dictatorships, has made them forget the much "duller" horrors of the Czech "normalization," and close ranks with the socialist camp, But, as is well known, "fellow trave'lers" have always proved to be warm supporters of "socialism...
...scorned by Mr. Garin. But since Professor Lipset is defending only the ideal of a university as a center for critical intellect he is explicitly concerned with the effects of social and political disputes on this ideal. So he discusses President Lowell's bigotry; he covers restrictions on pro-Communist faculty and students during the McCarthy period; and he tries to determine why President Pusey failed to "appreciate the strength of the half of a millennium old norm that police should not be called to the precincts of a university...
Privately, Minh and his advisers admit that elections may never take place. They would thus accept a government consisting of Communists, neutralists and token anti-Communists that would undoubtedly be dominated by the pro-Communist P.R.G. Nobody in Minh's camp believes that the Communists can be denied the lion's share of power, but a few believe that a political settlement will enable the non-Communists to exert some influence. "You can hope to have a solution that will give an opportunity to the non-Communist side to prepare for a new life," says a Minh adviser. "Forming...
Article Four is more than enforced. Under a number of decree-laws, issued by the executive branch of the Saigon government and approved, sometimes under heavy pressure, by the legislature, "persons, parties, leagues, and associations" that aim directly or indirectly at "practicing communism or pro-communist neutralism" are outlawed. "Pro-communist neutralism" is defined as "propaganda for and incitement of neutralism...