Word: procommunists
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...program two years later, when he reached the Senate. DIED. XIA YAN, 94, prominent literary figure in China's film, theater and book circles, whose communist credentials did not protect him from persecution during the Cultural Revolution; in Beijing. Xia is considered the grandfather of China's grandly propagandistic, procommunist movies, notably his 1930s screenplays of such epics as Wild Torrent and Twenty Four Hours in Shanghai. Named Vice Minister of Culture in 1954, Xia continued producing screenplays well into the 1960s. Nonetheless, during the Cultural Revolution, he was severely criticized and imprisoned for more than eight years for ``revisionist...
...remarks echoed by his Defense Minister, Pavel Grachev, Yeltsin used an interview on the eve of the biggest Soviet-era military holiday to rebuke hard-liners, including dissident officers, for trying "to play the army card" in a bid to derail Russian democracy. The next day 20,000 procommunist and ultranationalist demonstrators rallied next to the Kremlin to demand Yeltsin's resignation. A penchant for disappearing during major power struggles again raised public doubts about Yeltsin's health and political acumen. But the beleaguered President could take comfort in the week's only bright spot: an announcement that...