Word: dictatorship
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...Nicaraguan exiles kept a silent vigil on a grassy knoll, holding up banners denouncing the Sandinista regime. Said one: IN NICARAGUA RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION EXISTS! Another, referring to harassment of early Christians in Rome, read: NO CATACOMBS IN NICARAGUA! Though Nicaragua's Catholic leaders supported the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, moderate clerics have now grown wary of Sandinista-supported efforts to meld Christianity with Marxist ideology...
...Paul will not have to look far to see examples of the poverty and tyranny that he wants the church to oppose with all its moral might. Long fearful of government repression, the church hierarchy in Haiti issued a bold challenge to President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier's dictatorship in a pastoral letter read from pulpits last January. Among other things, it called on all believers to "pray to the Lord so he can free our country from torture...
...This is an epithet dreamed up by the Shah and later propagated by Khomeini and company. To answer your question, we must first establish what Marxism is. If it is dialectic materialism and historical determinism and, by later additions, the dictatorship of the proletariat, it is certainly not the Mujahedin's Islam. If dedication to social justice is Marxism, then the Mujahedin are Marxists. If opposition to class privilege and exploitation is Marxism, then the Mujahedin are Marxists. Of course, in this case, you have to say that Moses, Jesus Christ and Muhammad were Marxists...
...national guardsmen and police. All access roads to the town were cut off. Within the besieged area, food, medicines and potable water were growing scarce, and civilian refugees could escape from the fighting only by rowboat across a nearby reservoir. Bragged an F.M.L.N. commander: "The puppet forces of the dictatorship do not have a coherent strategy to combat our forces. They are confused as to whether they should concentrate and fight us or disperse into smaller groups...
...able to debate again in 50 years." But they jeered when she called Britain "an occupied country" because of the U.S. military bases there. Conversely, they applauded when former Prime Minister Lord Alec Douglas-Home said, "I am fearful when I see unilateralists sending out signals to a dictatorship that is mobilized with enormous armed forces and practices its doctrine in Czechoslovakia, Afghanistan and Poland." Home and Beloff carried the day. showing that, at Oxford at least, pacifism...