Word: leftist
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...move followed a U.S. decision to boycott court proceedings regarding charges that the U.S. was aiding guerillas trying to overthrow Nicaragua's leftist government...
...pride, a testament to the robustness of the U.S. economy and the eagerness of foreigners to swap their own currencies for dollars to be poured into American investments. The reputation of the U.S. as a "safe haven" for investments that will not be ravaged by inflation or undercut by leftist politicians certainly has been a factor in the dollar's rise, but most economists outside the Administration give far greater weight to an influence that is nothing to boast about: $200 billion budget deficits...
...many universities, Star Wars has generated echoes of the 1960s protests against campus military research. This time, however, the dissension is led not by radical leftist undergraduates but by professors and graduate students. Anti-Star Wars petitions are circulating on at least 48 campuses, from the University of Utah to Princeton. At the University of Illinois at Champaign- Urbana, 53 of the 70 full professors in the physics department, which is the second largest in the U.S., have pledged not to seek SDI funds and signed a statement that calls the program "deeply misguided, dangerous and enormously expensive." About half...
...this first appearance of the once powerful junta members, among them Jorge Videla and Leopoldo Galtieri, who ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1982. The nine generals contend that whatever abuses occurred during their time in office were the result of their antiterrorist campaign to save the country from a leftist takeover. Said Prosecutor Julio Strassera: "Accompanying me in this demand for justice are more than 9,000 desaparecidos (those who disappeared) who have left their silent but no less eloquent damning testimony." A verdict is expected by the end of the year...
Following the abduction, President Duarte received messages of sympathy from President Reagan and other world leaders. But the people he most wanted to hear from, the kidnapers, remained silent. Suspicion centered on the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, the leftist rebel organization that in recent months has threatened to take its struggle against the Duarte government into El Salvador's cities. That campaign got under way last June when an F.M.L.N. terrorist squad gunned down 13 people, including four off-duty U.S. Marines, in a San Salvador outdoor cafe...