Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed to be the first good news from Indochina in years. Since late in the 60s we had editorially supported the Khmer Rouge and National Liberation Front in Vietnam, both nationalist groups affiliated with foreign Communist parties, and both of those characteristics--the independence and the socialist egalitarianism--appealed to us. When the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh, a Crimson editorial said, "The capture of Phnom Penh last week by the Khmer Rouge is a victory for the Cambodian people over the corrupt Lon Nol regime and the imperialist American policies that supported...
...forbade almost all discussion of the question by insisting that the court was interested solely in finding out what happened on the day of the coup. The most important testimony touching on the CIA to be admitted during the trial came from Andreas Papandreou, the leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement and a volubly anti-American leftist. According to Papandreou, the Greek intelligence service (KYP) was heavily financed and directed by its U.S. counterpart. "I can assure you," he testified, "that these men [the defendants] worked in direct cooperation and correspondence with the Americans...
...garden city of Hangchow. In the words of one Chinese newspaper, factories were "unable to increase production because of bourgeois factionalism and sabotage by class enemies." At the end of July, some 10,500 troops were sent into the plants in Hangchow to "participate in industrial labor and support socialist construction"-meaning, to enforce party discipline and get the factories back to work. Apparently determined to make the Hangchow case an example for the country, Peking decided to publish accounts of the entire incident. By the time press reports appeared, however, the trouble was over...
...Marcello Caetano on April 25,1974, Portugal's newly freed press was unanimous in support of the new government. That admiration became dutiful, if not downright slavish, after the government last March nationalized the banks that controlled all of Lisbon's seven dailies. A notable holdout, the Socialist República, finally fell into line following a takeover by the Communist-dominated printers' union, backed by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council. Since then, though, several newspapers have openly irritated the government by publishing contentious statements from Portugal's rival military factions and ignoring official requests...
Even aides of President Francisco Costa Gomes acknowledged privately that the Communist-leaning Gonçalves had been irredeemably discredited. In the course of a 2½-hour meeting at Belem Palace, Costa Gomes reportedly asked Socialist Leader Mário Soares for a six weeks' grace period to arrange Gonçalves' resignation and restore political parties to representation in the government. Soares rejected the proposal. Soon afterward, he was backed by 7,000 Socialists who marched on Belem Palace shouting "Vasco must resign...