Word: redness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when they do win, Billy Cleary turns red...
...goals are spelled out in ten documents that a former Labor Party official, Lord Underhill, uncovered nearly three years ago. These plans of action, which Callaghan categorized as "so turgid they were unbelievable," outlined methods for capturing Labor at the grass roots. The program of the group, dubbed "Red Moles" by London's Daily Mirror, also includes fomenting an economic and political crisis in Britain that would result in the apocalyptic collapse of capitalism. One key tactic advocated is "entryism," a neologism coined by Leon Trotsky in 1934 to describe the infiltration of legal political organizations for subversive purposes...
...with its own "program, principles, and policy" was expressly prohibited by Labor's rules. By suppressing a report on Militant's documents, the N.E.C. rejected this argument by a vote of 14 to 12. In another rebuke to the party's center-right, the N.E.C. reinstated "Red Ted" Heslin, who was thrown out of the party a year ago on charges that he espoused revolution...
...aspires to succeed Callaghan as party leader. The internecine squabbling has led to fear that the party could split into two irreconcilable segments: a centrist group of Social Democrats, some of whom favor an alliance with the Liberal Party, and an openly leftist party that would tolerate the Red Moles and other extreme Marxists. A poll by the London Times showed that 54% of Britons favor a new centrist party in the political lineup. The N.E.C.'s high-handedness may have galvanized the moderates into action. Leaders of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers immediately mounted a campaign...
Total federal spending in the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 will grow to $615.8 billion, while the deficit is conservatively estimated at $15.8 billion. The red ink could go much higher. Spending for the 1980 budget, for example, is now projected to be $32 billion beyond the $532 billion set last January. Although Carter officials call the budget "tight and responsible," one White House aide quipped during the planning: "The word is out that the President would like to win the election...