Word: reformist
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...answered that Cuba will attract U.S. visitors "by more decent means-sports, for instance." Castro said that the gambling casinos would be reopened, for tourists only, and "the profits will go to the people." The ban on liquor sales stayed in effect until week's end, but reformist zeal could not entirely suppress the Cuban love of life. As tension gradually eased, the shaggy warriors from the hills began leading awed Havana girls to inspect their free (normally $30-a-day) rooms in the Hilton and Nacional Hotels...
...editor a party hack who had run the newspaper during the years Gomulka was in jail. A magazine was confiscated, and its editor fired, when it reprinted an angry article on Stalinism by French ex-Fellow Traveler Jean-Paul Sartre. An iron censorship was imposed on the bright reformist weeklies. Said one ex-editor: "I cannot follow Gomulka on this. But I cannot fight him, either...
...Agreed, in an attempt to end their "isolation," to try to build a "labor-peoples' antimonopoly" front with the help of the "reformist" groups which they had for many years fought, i.e., liberal labor leaders, independent Negro associations. Moreover, to get the new program under way, they decided to return party headquarters from effete Manhattan to Chicago, whence it had migrated in 1926. Reason: Chicago is near the heart of the farm belt and has a large concentration of Negro workers " in key unions...
...Correspondent." Outraged by these disorders, Sheik Sulman not only refused to fire Belgrave but exiled the reformist leader, Abdul Rahman Bakir−who promptly took refuge in Nasser's Cairo. The British Foreign Office, however, disturbed by Egypt's growing influence in Bahrein and anxious to avoid another blow to British prestige like Jordan's unseemly ouster of Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb (TIME, March 12), pressured Belgrave to get out while the getting was good. Last week, in a brief dispatch from "our own correspondent in Bahrein," the London Times reported that "the Sheik of Bahrein...
...those articles," said he, "I saw that Djilas had gone too far . . . Yugoslavia did approach the West, but not in domestic matters, only in the foreign policy field. [He put] back the clock of revolutionary history, instead of making it go forward . . . This is revisionism of the worst type-reformist opportunism and not revolutionary dynamism, as he would like it to seem...