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Last week a former Phoumi aide, Colonel Bounleut Sycocie, suddenly ordered three companies of Royal Laotian troops to occupy the Vientiane radio station. Taking over the microphone, Bounleut broadcast a demand for a shake-up in the rightist high command, which the Sananikones interpreted as an attempt at a Phoumi comeback. When Bounleut's troops blossomed out with blue neckerchiefs, Kouprasith's forces replied by donning yellow ones (most Asian armies are well supplied with colored kerchiefs, which are used as identifying insignia for the various battalions...
...Barry Goldwater's defeat was an unmistakable repudiation of extremism." This suggests that what you mean, by "extremism," is the set of political ideas and policy recommendations supported by Senator Goldwater and by such conservative spokesmen as William Buckley. You later use the term "Radical Right" as though "Radical Rightist" were synonymous with "Extremist...
...trying to convert America to a Communist state are ..." That hypothetical extremist would have precisely as good, and as bad, a case as you do; after all, the Communist Party, which is on the left, is trying to convert America to a Communist state, just as some "Radical Rightist," and possibly some right wing organizations, are doubtless using "techniques of distortion and innuondo...
...Gorgopotamos bridge was rebuilt with Marshall Plan funds, and last week busses and trains brought 10,000 leftists to the site to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the explosion. Also on hand was a rightist delegation from E.D.E.S., as well as government officials and army officers. After a Te Deum Mass, much of the crowd began to sing Communist guerrilla songs and shout Communist slogans. Suddenly there was a violent explosion near the bridge. Screaming "Fascists!" and "Killers!" the crowd scattered, leaving behind 13 dead and 51 wounded...
Leftist Deputies charged that the mine had been freshly placed by rightist terrorists. The rightists replied by censuring Papandreou for 1) permitting a mass meeting on a former minefield, and 2) failing to curb Red organization and activity. Right-wing and left-wing Deputies came to blows while Papandreou lit a cigarette and sat back, seemingly safe in the middle. But the aftermath of the explosion implied a different meaning: under Papandreou's center government, the Communists have enjoyed an ominous revival in Greece...