Word: sloganeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visits. Out in the provinces, where Mao was trying to put civilians back into key party positions (following his dictum that "the gun must never be allowed to control the party"), Chou has compromised. The soldiers are under pressure to "modestly learn from the people," as one slogan puts it, but they have not been levered out of the party committees, where they still hold sway over the civilians...
...Artists, another talent agency, which was luckily almost empty; most of the employees had not yet arrived for work. Within minutes, anonymous callers to the Associated Press and NBC claimed that the bombs had been set to protest "the deaths and imprisonment of Soviet Jews." They also shouted the slogan of the Jewish Defense League: "Never again...
...wisdom of Bratteli's observation was evident in counter-ceremonies staged last week in Ireland and Norway. In Dublin, all the ghosts of Irish nationalism are being dragged out by the anti-Marketeers ("Mansholt, the second Cromwell" reads one slogan, a reference to Sicco Mansholt, Dutch author of the Mansholt Plan to halve the number of Europe's agricultural workers by 1980). While the ceremonies were going on in Brussels, Dublin demonstrators read out a declaration of allegiance to the 1916 proclamation of the Irish Republic. In Oslo, anti-Marketeers staged a torchlight parade through the city...
...sticking point was always Ulster, whose Protestants feared the consequences of any kind of separation from England. In 1886, Gladstone's government was defeated on the Home Rule issue by the Tories, the most vocal of whom was Lord Randolph Churchill (Sir Winston's father), who coined a ringing slogan that ardent Orangemen still remember today: "Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right...
...Star Donald Sutherland, Jane was leading a scraggly, 15-member troupe of entertainers called the Free Theater Associates. Formed last winter largely to produce antiwar programs for U.S. servicemen, the F.T.A. is a sort of counter-U.S.O. and its initials conveniently stand also for "F- the Army," a slogan familiar to all overseas G.l.s. "Ours is a political vaudeville created out of materials found in G.I. newspapers," says Sutherland. In mid-November the group began a five-week holiday tour with a show near Fort Dix, N.J. From there it went on to play near (never on) bases...