Word: leftist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...arms to the Iranians and the department took no part in the operation, according to President Reagan. On the other hand, the State Department has been active in formulating and carrying out U.S. policies in Central America, notably efforts to help the contras in their fight against Nicaragua's leftist government...
...next step, needed to appease the generals who have backed her and to avoid a split within the armed forces, will probably be the firing of one or more of the leftist ministers whom the military has also criticized. Among these are Labor Minister Augusto Sanchez and Local Government Minister Aquilino Pimentel. Aquino has appeared to be reluctant to make changes, partly out of friendship and partly because she does not have many suitable candidates to offer as replacements. In addition, she needs to marshal support for the campaign to ratify the new constitution. Enrile, who may emerge...
Since the joint communique was released, Action Directe, the R.A.F. and radical leftist sympathizers have staged at least 60 terrorist strikes in Western Europe. In Bonn last month a terrorist killing foreshadowed the Besse murder: gunmen ambushed Gerold von Braunmuhl, a senior Foreign Ministry official, as he was returning home from work. The groups' affinity for dedicating their acts to terrorist martyrs has strengthened the image of a coordinated network...
Aquino's stunning action capped a fortnight of public protest and violence unmatched since the former housewife took office nine months ago. Only days after the leftist trade-union leader Rolando Olalia and his driver were brutally murdered, a right-wing former National Assemblyman, David Puzon, was ambushed and shot to death in a hail of automatic-weapons fire. A leading Japanese businessman was kidnaped while returning home from a round of golf. A bomb exploded in a Manila department store, injuring 13 people. Finally, at week's end Ulbert Ulama Tugung, a prominent Muslim ally of the President...
...days backers of the ousted Defense Minister had seethed after Philippine leftists took to the streets in a massive demonstration of pro-Aquino, anti- Enrile sentiment to mark Olalia's funeral. On Thursday a huge but orderly procession for the slain labor leader wound for miles through the streets of Manila. Waving red flags and placards, a crowd of more than 100,000 followed a flower-bedecked truck bearing the coffins of Olalia and his driver. J.V. Bautista, a leader of the leftist Bayan political coalition, hinted that Marcos backers might have been responsible for Olalia's death...