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...scandal widened days later, when Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha admitted that contrary to previous denials, South Africa had secretly spent more than $36 million to keep the leftist South West Africa People's Organization from winning a commanding victory in pre-independence elections in neighboring Namibia in 1989. Pretoria's support of at least seven parties opposed to SWAPO may have prevented the organization from gaining the two- thirds majority it needed to introduce a socialist constitution...
...recent issues, Lies has denounced as "outrageously, insultingly, totally false" the seemingly plausible contention that the elderly in the U.S. have a relatively well-organized political lobby, and blasted a Times reporter for advancing the subjective view that Ronald Reagan was generally "respected" by the French. A one-stop leftist wailing wall, it also criticizes photos, captions, book reviews, the positioning of stories and even letters to the editor. By and large, it tends to leave the Food section alone...
...President, the Joint Chiefs, the CIA, an Australian doctor, an idealistic revolutionary, a dazzling lady leftist whose eyes show "a vulnerability that she took such pains to conceal . . ." Len Deighton is at it again, this time in the treacherous jungles of South America. Throughout MAMista (HarperCollins; 410 pages; $21.95), guerrillas attempt to seize control of Spanish Guiana, currently under the thumb of cryptofascist goons. The covert war is rife with betrayal, and ultimately no one is pure in Deighton's 17th spy novel. Intrigues misfire; disease kills more effectively than bullets; and corruption becomes the order of the day. Even...
...rise of the Hindu nationalists, like the upsurge of Islamic politics in the Arab world, reflects widespread disillusionment with the leftist political order that dominated the freedom movements in the colonial world after World War II. In India, Advani and other B.J.P. politicians draw huge crowds to hear them rip into the Congress for the billions wasted on unproductive, state- owned industry, the alleged "pampering" of Muslims or the downplaying of Hindu tradition in favor of "pseudo secularism" -- their catchall term for Congress politicians who claim to be blind to religion but play to Muslim sentiments. Nehru, Gandhi and Congress...
Although the majority of Harvard professors interviewed say PC does not pose a problem for scholars or students, a growing movement to counteract its influence is gaining momentum. Already, several prominent University professors have joined an organization whose goal is to counteract what they say is the leftist indoctrination of students through the curriculum...