Word: reformists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in Philadelphia, Scranton ran only 20,000 behind Dilworth. And under the challenge of the reformist Republican alliance, the old G.O.P. had bestirred itself as it had not in years. If its energy can continue through November, Scranton, who is already being mentioned as a dark horse for the Republican presidential nomination...
...should his government be brought down, it would be replaced by a military dictatorship headed by tough General Teymour Bakhtiar and supported by landlords and mullahs (Moslem religious leaders). General Bakhtiar makes no secret of his willingness, should the Shah call on him, to replace Amini's reformist program with simple repression. Last week the general was Jeeping through the mountainous interior of Iran, renewing old friendships with his clansmen in the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe, who can supply him with clouds of hard-fighting horsemen, if needed...
...their representatives. A whopping 82 per cent of the House backed him up. Although the action was in many ways regrettable and ill-advised, it had the desired effect. The Council had to begin an agonizing reappraisal of itself. Almost overnight Bill Bailey had become a rallying point for reformist sentiment, and his proposal for a smaller, limited inter-House Council began to pick up support...
...chances of an economic upheaval, with expropriations and nationalization, seem equally slim. The N.P.C. [National People's Congress] is a bourgeois reformist party, and while the ideologies of the N.C.N.C. [National Council for Nigeria and the Cameroons] and the Action Group are less clear, their leaders realize that, if they drive away foreign capital, "they will be cutting their own throats...
Looking at the current African leaders, Essien-Udom contrasts Toure, whom he calls a revolutionist, wanting to change the whole of society, with Nkrumah, a reformist who only wants to patch things up, here and there. As to which of these kinds of change he thinks Nigeria needs most, Essien-Udom merely answers: "I am not a politician...