Word: leftist
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...already tried to improve UNESCO from within. The threat of a U.S. withdrawal is our only alternative and might spur UNESCO into reforming its leftist and nepotistic ways...
...million for research and development on the equipment in the 1970s. Yet no oil was ever found. In fact, there is no evidence that ' the expensive devices worked at all. A Belgian count who sold them to Elf has vanished, along with the money. As a result, the leftist government of President Francois Mitterrand is accusing its center-right predecessor of lying and incompetence, an investigation has been launched, and the French public is savoring the oddest political scandal in years...
...large New York staff is necessary because of the scope of the agency's U.S. program. Good News also complains that the board is replacing old-fashioned evangelism with a political crusade. Gallaway charges that the board is biased against hiring anyone "who is not a political leftist advocating liberation theology and radical social change." Support for the mission society includes more moderate church members...
...classic presidential-commission style, included something for everybody to applaud, but they also contained something for everybody to denounce. A number of liberal Democrats attacked the panel's stress on military aid and its refusal to countenance any form of power sharing between the right-wing government and leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. Said Maryland Congressman Michael Barnes, one of eleven legislators and foreign policy experts who participated in the commission's debates as "senior advisers," though not voting members: "The central thrust of this report is to recommend military solutions for the region and to deny...
...commission also recommended resumption of military aid to Guatemala, where the government is currently keeping a much smaller leftist insurrection in check; increased military aid of an unspecified amount to Honduras, Nicaragua's northern neighbor, where U.S. troops will soon be winding up joint exercises that are scheduled to be renewed in July; and a repeal of the existing ban on U.S. aid to foreign police forces. The ban was enacted to prevent the U.S. from underwriting human rights abuses by authoritarian regimes, but it has had the perverse effect of denying security assistance to democratic Costa Rica, which...