Word: leftist
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...Garcia, leader of the center-left Popular American Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), unofficially captured 48.7% of the vote, a better than 2-to-l lead over his only significant rival, Lima's Marxist Mayor Alfonso Barrantes Lingán, who headed the ticket of the United Left, an agglomeration of eight leftist and Communist parties. Voters overwhelmingly rejected the Popular Action Party of outgoing President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, whose policies have failed to alleviate Peru's worsening economic crisis. The party's candidate, Javier Alva Orlandini, won only 5.9% of the vote...
...programs have been approved piecemeal, usually as riders on unrelated bills. Last week, however, the House handily passed a $12.6 billion foreign aid bill, with strong Republican support. Reason: the bill was studded with G.O.P.-sponsored amendments aimed at turning up the heat on Communist and other far-leftist regimes around the world...
...subsidized National Theater and Royal Shakespeare Company. Both suffered cutbacks when their Arts Council grants were announced this spring, and the National's director, Peter Hall, temporarily closed his experimental Cottesloe stage. Some critics wondered if there might be a connection between the dispute and productions that have endorsed leftist views or attacked the conservatism of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The National's Pravda, for example, seems to say that the worst sin of Fleet Street is generosity toward Thatcher. The R.S.C.'s Today is a paean to men who abandoned their homes and families to fight as Communists...
...presented a 17 million--signature petition for debt relief at a G-8 meeting, and he has bent German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's ear on the topic. In the 1980s, Brazil's CLAUDIO CARDINAL HUMMES backed strikes and defied his country's dictators by letting leftist labor leader Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (now Brazil's President) make speeches during Mass. He has spoken out in favor of the organization of the landless in Brazil. Asked his priorities by Time, he immediately replied, "Evangelization and solidarity with the poor." Some outside the Third World have been almost as involved...
...star is said to be fading but who nevertheless has a compelling personal history. Quite like John Paul, this man from Medellín, Colombia, has displayed courage, tenacity and a willingness--even an eagerness--to mix church and state. He has gone deep into Colombian jungles to mediate between leftist guerrillas and right-wing death squads, and once showed up at the house of cocaine king Pablo Escobar disguised as a milkman. Revealing himself, Castrillón Hoyos implored Escobar to confess his sins, which, presumably at some considerable length, the vicious gangster...