Word: leftist
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...autobiography (Plon; 216 pages), Jean-Christophe Mitterrand argues that his father?s political ambitions determined his own fate. Despite the leftist credentials of his progressive parents - the socialist Mitterrand had married Danielle Gouze, who founded the human-rights group France Libertés - it?s difficult to imagine a familial environment more rigidly bourgeois than the one Jean-Christophe describes. The two Mitterrand boys weren?t encouraged to take part in any significant conversations and rarely dined with their parents, who were "not the sort to embrace or touch," as Jean-Christophe puts it. Communication was so formal that...
...roof to collapse. More than 1.2 million truckers, as well as millions of holidaymakers, use the Gotthard Tunnel every year. The accident is likely to stiffen opposition to the reopening of the Mont Blanc Tunnel, closed in March 1999 after a truck fire killed 39. three held for training leftist guerrillas in Colombia. The British government started dismantling military installations in the province. ISRAEL Troop Withdrawal Under strong diplomatic pressure, Israel agreed to withdraw from Bethlehem and Beit Jala, two West Bank towns it occupied after the assassination of cabinet minister Rehavan Ze?evi. Troops had already pulled...
...destroyed, leaving 13,000 people homeless and wiping out the banana crop. COLOMBIA Violence on All Sides At least 49 people died in a week of politically inspired killings. Paramilitaries from the right-wing United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia shot dead 24 men in the village of Buga. Leftist rebels were blamed for the deaths of two kidnapped policemen, while an unknown gunman assassinated congressman Luis Alfredo Colmenares...
...banned the military arm of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which killed Zeevi in retaliation for the assassination of its own leader, Abu Ali Mustafa, by Israel last August. The Palestinian Authority (PA) has also arrested scores of PFLP militants, drawing fierce criticism from the leftist faction as well as from Hamas - and among ordinary Palestinians...
...Zeevi had been one of the more extreme politicians on the Israeli right, openly favoring the mass expulsion of the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza and opposing any renewed dialogue. And he was assassinated by a tiny leftist splinter group equally opposed to resuming talks. Both Zeevi and his killers had occupied the political fringes. But the fringes on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide, these days, have moved dangerously close to the mainstream...