Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anti-Communists charge that the Communist bargain was urged on Kassem by his chief aide, burly, Red-lining Colonel Wasfi Tahir (who, incredibly, held the same job under Nuri). Kassem himself may have failed to see the dangers in the bargain; his enemies charge that he himself flirted with Communism in his youth, and not long ago he was still capable of declaring: "I don't care about parties . . . They can call us Communists or anything else, if they like...
...real use for it. Yet should Moscow, because of these political and economic difficulties, order the Iraqi Communists to stop short of an all-out takeover, there is danger that the volatile Iraqi mob, which loves nothing so much as a winner, would begin to turn away from its Red heroes just as it has turned away from Nasser...
...found himself charged with impersonating an officer, violation of domicile, restraint of person and arbitrary arrest. Tom's suspects, who had admitted to being part of an estimated $500,000-a-year ring, walked out of the station free men-because the police themselves had not caught them red-handed as the law requires...
...population is now 20% bigger than before the war. The cost of living has jumped 40% in the past two years without any compensating increase in wages. And the European Common Market is expected to spell further trouble for Spain's foreign trade, already in the red...
...catch ten fleas at the same time," warned Peking's People's Daily not long ago, "it is quite possible that he will not catch even one. Fleas must be caught one after the other." Last week, in deference to this folksy dictum, economic planners all over Red China were lowering their sights...