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...sense of unease that was so evident throughout the day--that indeed had been building for two weeks--had been heightened by four bomb blasts in Dusseldorf and Cologne. On Saturday a march in Bonn sponsored by the leftist Green political party attracted 7,000 political radicals, peace activists and leather-jacketed punkers. They carried banners with anti-NATO and pro- Communist slogans. Police charged one group of marchers burning an American flag in Munsterplatz, a cobblestoned pedestrian mall in the city center, and used tear gas to break up some of the crowd. In the ensuing melee, eleven officers...
...leaflets left by the Brussels terrorists, a group calling itself the Fighting Communist Cells claimed responsibility for the blast. The organization is believed to have links with other leftist terrorist organizations, including Action Directe in France and the West German Red Army Faction. Bereaved Brussels firemen responded by issuing their own communique, declaring, "We mourn our comrades, cowardly assassinated this night. The First of May will not be a holiday for some 1,000 Brussels workers, the fire fighters...
...different countries last week, the list reflected the Pope's concern for doctrinal orthodoxy and his opposition to Communism. Among the Archbishops elevated to the Sacred College: Miguel Obando y Bravo of Managua, Nicaragua, and Paulos Tzadua of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, each a determined critic of his country's leftist government, and Warsaw's Henryk Gulbinowicz, a supporter of Poland's outlawed Solidarity union. Also receiving red hats were two U.S. prelates whose outlooks seem cut from papal cloth: Boston's Bernard F. Law and New York City's John J. O'Connor, 65, who acknowledged the news by noting...
...unabashed leftist, Swanson is an intelligent and highly intelligible radical in an age which no longer deals kindly with the breed. Since graduating from Harvard in 1974, he has traveled in the Third World and written extensively about his findings. And whether writing on slain Chilean leader Salvador Allende, Spanish democracy or, most recently, the growing crisis in South Africa, he has never waivered in his impassioned attacks on the victimization of the poor by the rich, the Third World by the superpowers...
WASHINGTON -- The Democratic-controlled House last night rejected 248-180 President Reagan's proposal for $14 million in direct military aid to contra insurgents seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua. The same resolution was approved 53-46 by the Republican-led Senate only a few hours earlier...