Word: leftist
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...Once a radical leftist, he exiled himself to France in the 1960s and made a career as a Paris banker. He spent his off hours promoting Middle East peace, becoming friends with Shimon Peres and other Israeli leaders as well as Palestinians like Issam Sartawi, who was assassinated in 1982 for pursuing secret talks with Israel. In 1991, King Hassan II asked Azoulay to return home to advise him on economic matters. He stayed on after the King's death...
...There doesn't seem to be much doubt among Peruvians that Lori Berenson was clearly hooked up with the MRTA (the leftist Tupac Amaru guerrilla group). So for Peruvians the issue of unfairness (unless you assume there's something basically unfair in the court system) is moderated by the fact that she got a second trial and she got an enormous amount of attention, which most Peruvians don't get under similar circumstances...
...that she rented it, then sublet it; she didn't know the woman was an MRTA person, the sketch had no terrorist purposes and so on. From a Peruvian point of view, this evidence against the background of the fact that she had worked for a leader of the (leftist guerrilla movement) Farabundo Mart? Front for National Liberation in El Salvador didn't look good. Her past painted her as somebody quite likely to be connected with a guerilla movement in Peru. The fact that she refused to criticize (the MRTA) also helped strengthen the case against...
...until he began his first teaching job at the University of Maryland in 1958 that Lee moved decisively to the far left. Many of Lee's colleagues and graduate students in Maryland were fairly leftist, he recalls, and in the late 1950s, anti-Communism was less virulent than earlier in the decade...
...Along with his composition, Hollister practices numerology on the side--keeping up a commitment to mysticism that he says arose in his early twenties out of a feeling of disillusionment with his parents' leftist ideology...