Word: leftist
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Lilian Uchtenhagen was refused a seat on the Swiss Federal Council not because she was a woman but in spite of it [Feb. 6]. For the conservatives in the Swiss Parliament, she was too much of a leftist socialist. They preferred a more moderate candidate, who happened to be male. The fact that Uchtenhagen is female made it more difficult for the conservatives to vote against...
...commemorate former Secretary of Agriculture and Vice President Henry A. Wallace, who was born down the road. Everybody was sweating but Mondale seemed to be sweating the most. The consensus at Toad's was that Mondale took fright at the possibility of being linked to the leftist politics of Wallace, who when dropped by Franklin Roosevelt in 1944 went off and formed a radical third party. The ceremony decorously dwelled on Wallace's contributions to hybrid seed corn, which cooled Mondale off. But there was never much enthusiasm for Mondale at Toad...
Italian authorities believe the organization is one of the extreme factions of the leftist Red Brigades, which have been responsible for dozens of terrorist attacks in Italy, including the 1981 kidnaping of U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier...
...ctores to power. Although the day passed without any protest or disruption, the heightened security and the absence of any official celebration underscored the extreme uneasiness felt by the government of Central America's most populous (7.9 million) republic. As in neighboring El Salvador, a leftist insurgency poses a permanent challenge to the regime. Mejía, whose country has experienced two coups in less than two years, also worries about the intentions of his fellow military officers...
Argentina would not be electing its leaders today had the leftist guerrillas defeated the "barbarous" and "repressive" military regime in the dirty...