Word: rightist
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...government is elected, it may not be able to impose the necessary stringent economic measures; hostility between Britain's classes could grow and create a political crisis. Trade Union Leader Hugh Scanlon has already warned that a vote against Labor is a "vote for industrial chaos this winter." Rightist groups led by retired military officers are organizing volunteers to keep essential services going if there are widespread strikes...
...beginning of next year, most Latin American countries will probably have recognized the Castro regime. The only diehards in the hemisphere are expected to be the rightist regimes of Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and Paraguay...
...with his 6-ft. 200-lb. frame and his graying hair dyed black. When he returned home last year in response to his countrymen's desperate summons, his appearance triggered a paroxysm of jubilation. Hundreds of thousands turned out to cheer him, but more than 100 were killed as rightist and leftist Peronistas ended up fighting each other. The violence was symbolic of Perón's last reign: he was too old and too ill to solve Argentina's festering problems...
...road metaphor, complained that "the middle of the road is where the white line is ? and that's the worst place to drive." But Eisenhower had a wider middle in mind, which served him well as a political credo. He deplored categorizing people "as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road." The people he despised were those who "go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center...
...Mitterrand has been emphasizing his career as a responsible statesman. In fact, there is little on the surface that is frightening about him. He has been denounced as an "opportunist" more often than as a "revolutionary." During the Fourth Republic, he served in eleven governments, some of them under rightist Premiers. His portfolios ranged from Minister of Overseas Territories to Minister of the Interior. Although he has been a Socialist for much of his political life, he still says: "I am not a Marxist...