Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Economic Dilemmas. Most of the tearing is being done by the party's "Gaullist" wing, headed by venerable ex-Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 88, and beefy ex-Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, 49, who favor De Gaulle's vision of a Europe independent of the U.S. in nuclear and other matters. They are opposed by the dominant "Atlanti-cist" wing, led by Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and his Foreign Minister, Gerhard Schroder, who favor the U.S. -proposed multilateral force (MLF) and close as sociation with Washington...
Complicated Failure. It was to avoid just such a result, and to "isolate" the Communists, that former Premier Amintore Fanfani created the apertura a sinistra, or opening to the left, in 1962. Fanfani reasoned that by forming a coalition government between his Christian Democrats and the left-wing Socialists of Pietro Nenni, he would 1) rob the Communists of their strongest allies, and 2) give himself room to press for domestic reforms without foot-dragging by conservative parties...
Portuguese anger is mild compared to that of some right-wing Hindu groups, which look upon the congress as a colonialist plot to destroy the culture of India. There are blunt posters on the streets of Bombay warning that "Christianity is a danger to Hinduism." Indian officials minimized the threat to the Pope, but put a number of Hindu fanatics in protective custody and strengthened the 16,000-man Bombay police force with 3,000 troops from the Maharashtra state police...
When the Crimson offense failed to produce a good shot on goal until midway through the first period, Captain John Daly moved up to left wing to provide power up front. The Huskies' Larry Bone replied to this strategem by stealing the puck at the Crimson blue line and scoring the first goal of the night...
...vice-Presidential nominee had the harshest of words for the conservative wing of the Republican party. He belittled the position that Barry Goldwater's 26 million votes represent an ideological movement. "Any Republican could get 20 million votes, and only about a million this year were really for Goldwater...