Word: rightist
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...question whether a personality had been more important to the party than a program. For all of Labor's apparent unity, Gaitskell was the adhesive that held the party together. The top contenders for that leadership have no such value; Deputy Labor Leader George Brown is a rightist pro-European, and Harold Wilson, who was the youngest Cabinet minister of the century back in 1947, is mistrusted by his colleagues for overweaning ambition. But outwardly, all factions are determined to prevent Labor from disintegrating again into a hodgepodge of bickering factions...
Hargis, head of the rightist religio-political Christian Crusade, started the day's speeches with a prayer for the "misguided youth who picket this meeting today...
...Assembly, Premier Pompidou's Cabinet was little changed. Key posts remained in the hands of trusted veterans such as suave, multilingual Maurice Couve de Murville, Charles de Gaulle's faithful Foreign Minister, and brainy Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who led a wing of the rightist Independent Party into the Gaullist camp during the election. Though there were few new faces in the government, its most pressing legislative goals were underscored by the jobs that went to two of De Gaulle's top troubleshooters, Louis Joxe and Christian Fouchet...
Listening to Bandits. Chan felt different about Communism's summary justice when two comrades he liked were purged for being rightist deviationists. "It made me feel something was wrong." He was switched to the "tiger squad," which launched a drive on businessmen suspected of holding out on taxes or hoarding gold. Chan claims he saw police figures in 1953 listing, for Canton alone, 8,000 executions and 10,000 suicides. Chan says now: "I wanted to quit, but it was as if I were an orphan. I felt I had no place...
...killers and terrorists of the S.A.O. it was Krim, who had last appeared in Algeria in 1957 as a leader of the F.L.N. underground, which was spreading death and destruction among the Europeans. The S.A.O. had sworn never to allow an F.L.N. leader to enter Algeria alive, but the rightist newspaper L'Anrore hailed his presence and the prospect of talks between terrorists: "Perhaps in this way a nation will be born...