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...looking for less spiritual radical literature, Revolution Books (1 Arrow St.) has a collection of leftist and third world books which would do a Greenwich Village bookstore proud. Across the street, Asian Books (12 Arrow St.) stocks a large selection of books on Islamic and Asian topics...
...demand of constituency for high-ranking ministers. In one famous episode, the Labour leader in the House of Lords (at a time when Carrington was Tory leader) was debating the abolishment of the House with a left-wing opponent at the Oxford Union, and one of the leftist's most effective arguments for the abolition of Lords was that it would allow Carrington to be Prime Minister...
...whose members are drawn from most shades of the political rainbow, Aquino has largely chosen to delegate responsibility. The very diversity of the group, she claims, is an example of democracy in action. But hers remains a treacherous tightrope walk. Says Leandro Alejandro, the secretary-general of Bayan, the leftist political alliance: "If she goes to the right, she will lose a lot of her popularity, but if she goes to the left, the U.S. will not stand for it. And if she fights the military, she might end up in exile...
...contra representative, who has met mixed receptions on other area campuses, said that the aid would furnish the Honduras-based rebels with equipment sorely needed if they are to overthrow the leftist Sandinista regime that took power in Nicaragua...
Some of the vigilantes are reportedly off-duty black policemen, and many blacks suspect that these groups are working with government security forces. The critics say that police, who regularly clash with leftist protesters, seldom appear when right-wing vigilantes are on the prowl and are slow to investigate charges against the groups. "There are right-wing elements of our community ready to be used by the authorities to blunt the edge of liberation forces," says Murphy Morobe, chief spokesman for the United Democratic Front, the national umbrella organization for more than 600 antiapartheid groups. "These vigilantes are no different...