Word: revolutionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The showdown had been brewing for some time. In the days following the April 1967 revolution, Papadopoulos was the favorite of the hardliners. They became increasingly disillusioned with him after he encouraged the drafting and promulgation of a constitution that ultimately would bring back exiled King Constantine and put the...
As if to buttress that contention, the chief government spokesman emphasized at a press conference that all government power is now being exercised solely through the Cabinetland Premier, as prescribed in the new constitution that was overwhelmingly ratified last September. Papadopoulos appointed a commission of jurists and civil servants to...
Papadopoulos' victory imposes new responsibilities on him. In the past, he has accused the hard-liners of preventing him from moving more quickly toward the re-establishment of parliamentary rule through elections. Now that he has curbed them, he has also eliminated his most convincing excuse for keeping Greece...
It has been standard practice in both China and the Soviet Union to assign graduates to rural work, in part to help them overcome their traditional aversion to dirty hands. But the current mass deportation of intellectuals from urban centers has more far-reaching goals and implications. Chinese broadcasts emphasize...
Stinking Thinking. Some analysts, principally British China-watchers in Hong Kong, see even deeper significance in the campaign. They are convinced that the extreme leftists who promoted the lunacies of the Cultural Revolution have been replaced at China's controls by the more conservative army. They believe that the...