Word: leftist
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...state. The announcement was greeted with enthusiasm by the 6,000 delegates and visitors who had gathered at a race track in the capital of Harare for the first congress in 20 years of Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). The meeting was conducted in the finest leftist tradition, from rhythmic hand clapping to the playing of the Internationale. Proclaimed one banner: LONG LIVE OUR MARXIST-LENINIST PARTY...
...remain chairman of Harvard's History department for one more year. Our only danger is that our chief moles at Harvard, the Republican Club, will froth like they did last year when they attacked Womack and that wimpy liberal Stanley Hoffman as an example of Harvard's purportedly leftist faculty. That would undoubtedly whip up more liberal sentiment, the kind of goo-goo feeling I don't like to deal with...
Then, on Thursday, four heavily armed men claiming to be members of a leftist guerrilla group attempted to rob a bank in Soyapango, a working-class suburb of San Salvador, killing a security guard and taking 73 hostages. Police surrounded the bank, while Red Cross officials negotiated with the rebels. After nearly 23 tense hours, the guerrillas surrendered. The episode alarmed Salvadoran authorities: until recently, the rebels had rarely launched an attack so close to the capital...
Nonetheless, General Gorman said, he would oppose sending U.S. troops to El Salvador, even if its government was in danger of falling to leftist guerrillas. Yet he did suggest that the number of U.S. military advisers there be increased from 55 to 125. Congress is not likely to view the request favorably. Last week, although the Senate Appropriations Committee approved $116 million more in military aid to El Salvador, the House refused to include such funds in an emergency spending bill...
...political "impurities" in Cuban society-by charging many dissidents with "moral impurity." Given the country's licentious reputation in the bad old days of the Batista regime, a program of sexual austerity had a plausible, even uplifting, ring. It would satisfy the puritanical strain that attends much leftist thought even as it appealed to traditional Cuban ideas of machismo, nourished in Castroites by their years of guerrilla warfare. As Writer René Ariza says, there is "some Castro...