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GUATEMALA. The upheavals in Nicaragua and El Salvador, in turn, have fed a rightist backlash in Guatemala. The main source of right-wing violence is the Secret Anti-Communist Army (ESA), a vigilante organization that appears to enjoy the cooperation of the country's repressive military leaders. The group's avowed mission: "Annihilate the left"-meaning anyone from a Marxist guerrilla to a moderate reformer. As in El Salvador, victims of ultraright hit squads include university students and professors, journalists, union leaders, priests and opposition politicians, many of whom have been tortured and mutilated. Armed leftists, meanwhile, have...
...reactionary backlash to what can only be deemed progress, some advocates of the return to the Indian symbol have trumpeted their dismay, claiming minority interests have received preference over others, and that the 1973 ban of the symbol constitutes a curtailment of their right to free expression. One English professor was quoted in The New York Times as saying "People are sick of the claims of victims. Whatever minority groups want these days...
About the only consolation Democrats could find in the President's predicament was that Republicans might push too hard to evoke Watergate and create a backlash of sympathy for Jimmy. Noted former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis: "We all have someone in our family tree who gets a little wild sometimes." Argued Danny Cupit, a top Carter worker in Mississippi: "The acts of the brother should not be imputed to the President." Observed New York Mayor Ed Koch...
...backlash against indexation is beginning to develop. Says Jo Anna Gray, a Federal Reserve economist: "Indexation only aggravates the type of inflation we now suffer." As salaries increase to meet prices, firms raise their prices again to pay for the higher wages. The end result is that cost of living adjustments create a perpetual inflation machine...
...rest on the assumption that equality is here to stay," Friedan said. "I don't want to see a generation of lonely, tired, bitter women in the next few years in backlash against what I have worked so hard for," she added...