Word: procommunist
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...unpredictability, the day of the Africans at the U.N. represented something new and as yet only half realized, something strong and, at bottom, hopeful. For long years, the cold war reduced the U.N. to stale factions divided by a kind of international discomfort-index into those who were proCommunist, antiCommunist, and those who hovered in between. But last week the mold was broken as the holdouts, with the new nations added to their ranks, suddenly became the U.N.'s biggest "bloc" and the U.N. took a startled new look at itself. What it saw was very nearly a portrait...
Eight months ago, as he whipped up Sicilian voters with the slogan, "Sicily for the Sicilians. Down with the mainland," owl-eyed Silvio Milazzo (TIME, June 22) indignantly denied that he was proCommunist. "I am no Trojan horse," intoned dissident Christian Democrat Milazzo. "I am a pure-blooded Sicilian horse, a noble animal." He became president of Sicily's semi-autonomous regional government, ruling in coalition with the Communists. But last week Maverick Milazzo, no longer regarded as so pure-blooded a Sicilian horse, was put to pasture...