Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khruschev made a similar move last June, when he summoned the full party Central Committee to confirm the purge of Georgi Malenkov, Lazar Kaganovich and V. M. Molotov from their party and government posts.
John McClellan's Senate investigating committee, which has just prepared a long list of "improper activities" by Hoffa and henchmen, is another of the Teamster president's more peaceful opponents. The situation here is a particularly frustrating one for McClellan and his committee, for they are convinced, along with the...
Actually, both the "traitor" label and the "heretic" of the book's title are curiously oldfashioned, almost romantic terms for a highly successful survivor in a political system where the only real treason is to be slower on the draw than the other fellow, the only real heresy to...
Presumably, all was matey, once again between Indonesia's strong-willed President Sukarno and his disenchanted "Veep," Mohammed Hatta. They had been urged back together at an unusual assemblage of 150 top Indonesian leaders-including rebel colonels from the hill-all worried by the political disintegration of their country...
Pinning tke Rap. So long as Stalin lived, the Leningrad Case was a "quiet purge": nothing was said of it in print. It was first used as a weapon after Stalin's death, in the overthrow and execution of Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria. Even then, mention of the...