Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic rationale, Wilson's real reasons for pressing ahead with nationalization are of course doctrinaire and political. Steel nationalization had become the test of Socialist purpose, and Wilson had a debt to pay to Labor's left wing as well as to his own conviction. Moreover, steel had also become a challenge to Wilson's thin, four-vote Commons majority...
...establishing order meant delivering control of the island republic to a right-wing junta headed by General Wessin y Wessin...
Ironically, Uncle Sam's intervention in favor of the right-wing military may do more for the Communists than he could have done by sitting on his thumbs. Dominicans remember that the last time the gunboats came to their island, Trujillo emerged from the ensuing struggle. His dictatorship lasted 32 years. Many Dominican democrats fear a return to U.S. supported Trujilloism in the person of Wessin y Wessin. They are being forced to make common cause with the Communists in the fight for non-military government...
Wilson, under pressure from his left wing and fearful of nuclear proliferation, was determined to head off the U.S.-sponsored multilateral force. It was on this urgent mission that he made his first trip to the U.S. as British leader. He half expected a rebuff from Lyndon Johnson; instead Johnson promptly agreed to postpone the whole idea, to Wilson's enormous relief...
...revolution that toppled Leftist João Goulart in March 1964, Brazil has been riven by an ugly power squabble that could drastically affect the future of Brazilian democracy. Taking advantage of the coup that landed a soldier, General Humberto Castello Branco, in the presidential palace, a hardline, right-wing military faction known as the linha dura has been busily purging state and local governments of every official whom they suspect of Communist sympathies or simple malfeasance-in many cases without benefit of judicial procedure. Last week the hard-liners were dealt a hard blow. It came from none other...