Word: leftist
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...addition, Lekachman provides some thought provoking suggestions for leftist alternatives to Reaganomics. But more important, Lekachman's book is so well argued that he could well persuade been middle-of-the-road readers who aren't predisposed to agree with...
...treatment of that great and powerful outburst is typical of the way he deals with the facts, then much of this book is a twisted, lying account. Though he allows at one point that the "radicals who openly supported the Communists were in a minority even within the leftist opposition," virtually every other discussion of the opposition makes it appear that its constituents were hardened Bolsheviki...
...Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, Hitler's Germany, all became causes in one year or another--depending on one's place in the ideological spectrum. The Left Bank had a little bit of every thing, though mostly it lived up to its name. Communist, Socialist, leftist, these were the tags affixed to most writers and artists...
...winning friends. On his first stop in Jamaica, Reagan was greeted by crowds of friendly schoolchildren waving American flags, and he mingled happily with eight-and nine-year-old calypso dancers at an airport welcome. Edward Seaga, the pro-business Prime Minister whose election in October 1980 ousted a leftist government, proudly ticked off signs of Jamaica's economic revival: positive economic growth after eight years of slump; the first foreign-exchange surplus since 1974; lower inflation; slightly less unemployment. He gave full credit to U.S. aid, which under Reagan has been generous indeed. Jamaica...
...Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's countrymen at a time when the government appears to have finally consolidated its powers. Until recently, political stability seemed beyond reach. Power struggles had racked virtually every sector of the government, and the economy was on the brink of ruin. An assassination campaign by leftist Mujahedin guerrillas claimed the lives of nearly the entire top tier of the government last year. Most costly of all has been the war with Iraq, which bled off $7 billion, or an estimated 17% of the government's annual budget. But the war also provided a strong rallying...