Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political effect of Mboya's murder will apparently be to strengthen the opposition to the government. Mboya himself had been in Kenyatta's Cabinet and a supporter of the government. But most Luos, led by Leftist Oginga Odinga, belong to the opposition Kenya People's Union. Along the entire route of the cortege, crowds shouted the defiant party rallying cry of "Dume! Dame!", which means bull, and refers to the K.P.U. party symbol. How badly the government will be hurt depends, of course, on how swiftly it can capture the assassin and on the discovery of which...
...hoped for an atmosphere of ecclesiastical calm. But out side the palace were 70 priests (some of them in sport coats and red ties), part of a protesting "shadow symposium" that had been hastily convened at a nearby hostel. Bullhorn in hand, French Dominican Jean Cardonnel, a fiery leftist whose Lenten address helped inspire last year's "May events" in Paris, set the tone of the protest. The servants of Jesus Christ, he said, were now joining the world's students and workers to demand better human conditions...
Moise Kapenda-or "beautiful Moses"-Tshombe took an estimated $20 million into his second exile, much of it collected through bribes and kickbacks. Behind he left a checkered legend. Older Congolese remember the prosperous times of his premiership; the young now revere Lumumba the leftist and revile his enemy. Whites still recall the man so cultured and well-spoken that many colonials considered him a "black European." But because Moise Tshombe relied to such an extent on white advice and white arms, his name is no longer beautiful in much of black Africa. Indeed, like that of Norwegian Vidkun Quisling...
...agreement on the mines was a political triumph for Frei, whose shaky Christian "Democrat party must face a rising leftist challenge in the 1970 elections. But Anaconda stock dropped to a new low for the year, and company executives said that they did not know how Anaconda would make up its Chilean losses...
...capable of effecting national reconciliation and producing a "more far-reaching dialogue with the Assembly." The man best equipped to perform both chores seemed to be the handsome speaker of the Assembly, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, one of the major heroes of the World War II Resistance, who served under leftist Fourth Republic governments before joining the Gaullists...