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...admittedly a cheap shot to criticize Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith, on whom the above description is based, for being a "60s holdover. "He has been one of the nation's leading liberals since as far back as the late 40s, when his leftist leanings roused the Harvard Board of Overseas, for the first and last time, into trying to wield its merely symbolic power of halting tenure appointments. Furthermore, unlike less imaginative colleagues and students who simply emulate legends of that era, Galbraith actually helped shape his caricature's mold...
...that the Socialists and Communists were "consummate artists when it comes to lying." Former Premier Raymond Barre blasted the government for the "cacophony" of its contradictory policies. Mitterrand remained above the fray, but Socialist First Secretary Lionel Jospin and Communist Boss Georges Marchais tried to drum up the loyal leftist vote in the suburban industrial "Red belt" around Paris. Marchais told a rally in Communist-controlled Villejuif, "The right is dangerous! We must throw all our forces into battle...
...began as an angry demonstration by leftist students at the University of Dhaka against the military regime of Lieut. General H.M. Ershad, 53. Shouting "Deception!" and "Food first, language second, generals last!" hundreds of students last week marched into the streets of Dhaka in open defiance of martial law: When the students ignored orders to return to the campus, police shot tear-gas canisters into the crowd, which was armed with bricks, hockey sticks and knives. Throughout the day, as fighting spread to other Bangladesh cities, bands of students continued guerrilla-style raids, beating civilians, burning shops and attacking buses...
France had previously demanded the return of Barbie, but Bolivian military leaders with close ties to the ex-Nazi businessman had refused. When leftist civilians took office in Bolivia last October, President François Mitterrand's government decided to try again. This time the Bolivians agreed to cooperate. In an apparent effort to pave the way for Barbie's expulsion, Bolivian police picked him up on Jan. 25 and charged him with fraud in connection with a $10,000 loan from the state. Barbie immediately repaid the debt, plus interest, but it did him little good. Instead...
...when he overthrew a military regime, vowing to end corruption and bring a return to parliamentary government. He made good on his second promise, calling free elections three weeks after the coup, but after just two years of civilian rule Rawlngs again moved in with his army strongmen. A leftist revolutionary descended from a Scottish engineer father and a Ghanaian mother, Rawlings promised on regaining power that Cuba would be the model for Ghana's development...