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Slansky & Co. pleaded guilty to a standard list of crimes: high treason, conspiracy with non-Communist agents and spies, murder, espionage, sabotage, Titoism, Trotskyism. They also accused themselves of something new in Red purge trials: "Zionism," "Jewish bourgeois nationalism," "Jewish chauvinism." Slansky and ten others among the defendants are Jews...
Rumors continue to circulate that the 60-year-old Ho is dead as a result of 1) tuberculosis, 2) an assassin's bullet, 3) a French bombing raid, 4) a Red purge. The announcers who speak in Ho's name are impostors.
One, for instance, is the statement that Lodge could wield nothing but his one vote. Following this by several paragraphs is the assertion that the Old Guard Republicans' enthusiasm for Kennedy is no more than a fanatic attempt to purge Lodge. The first statement seems plausible, the second unexceptionable, yet...
2. Started a purge of Negroes.
5. Purge. 36. In nearby Hungary, the puppet National Assembly dutifully crowned as Premier the hard-bitten Communist revolutionary: 1. Matyas Rakosi. 4. Georgi Dimitrov 5. Edvard Kardelj.