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...gathered in Berlin last week for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank encountered more than the usual round of interminable speeches and parties. While the world's top moneymen jawed away inside the International Congress Center, outside in the streets legions of leftist demonstrators chanted, "IMF, meeting of murderers!" At one point, policemen carrying Plexiglas shields and billy clubs broke up a boisterous crowd of 2,000. Another day, 75,000 marchers paraded peacefully. While the protests did not disrupt the conference, the bankers knew what they symbolized: a growing anger around the world...
...rethinking and an examination of how we view the legal structure of the country, through an absolutely leftist lens," says Debbie J. Israel, a second-year student at Rutgers Law School. "It's as exclusionary in its nature and hypocritical as the right wing and establishment it critiques...
...would have been equally as opportunistic for DuPont to lambast Jackson with the usual rhetoric--calling him a leftist liberal, soft on communism and high on taxes. And he could have called Jackson a proponent of massive government handouts to redistribute the nation's wealth. He would have received quite a bit of applause from his eagerbeaver conservative audience...
Both sides in the country's eight-year civil war are already jockeying for advantage. The leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front is believed to be preparing its first major push since 1983. Although in the past the war was fought largely in the countryside, San Salvador is likely to be a major target for any new rebel operation. Intelligence reports say a shipment of guns was recently smuggled into the capital. Last week guerrillas ambushed an air force truck in the city, killing one civilian and wounding three soldiers...
...contradicted. Two days later, Mexico's Federal Electoral Commission released the long- delayed final tabulation of the July 6 presidential ballot. As expected, the victor was Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), with 50.36% of the 19 million votes cast. Cardenas, the leftist opponent, finished with 31.12%, and the challenger on the right, Manuel Clouthier, received 17.07%. Two minor candidates accounted for the rest of the total. Final returns in voting for the Chamber of Deputies gave the P.R.I. 260 of the 500 seats, well short of the two-thirds plurality required...