Word: leftist
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...expressive face framed in a white collar and blue suit. French President François Mitterrand was on the air, live from his study in the Elysée Palace. In an hour-long Gallic version of a televised fireside chat, Mitterrand delivered the first comprehensive defense of his leftist domestic policies since he took office seven months ago. "Those who chose us want things to change," said he. "There must be some reforms, and these reforms must be carried out at a reasonably good pace...
Signs of discontent are already evident. Leftist unions have been stepping up their demands of the government. The Communist-led Confédération Générale du Travail, for example, is holding out for an immediate reduction in the work week from 40 hours to 38; Mitterrand is offering 39. A crowd of 3,000 ecologists staged a violent demonstration two weeks ago at Golfech, in southwestern France, to charge Mitterrand with reneging on his campaign pledge to curtail new nuclear-plant construction...
...deeply cynical about the ability of the generals to govern. Galtieri will be the third military ruler, after Jorge Rafael Videla and Viola, since the 1976 coup that overthrew the government of Isabelita Perón and resulted in a bloody campaign to rid the country of leftist terrorists. The down-to-earth Galtieri, 55, is said to be well-liked in Washington and is expected to move swiftly to restore economic order to Argentina. But his stewardship of el proceso, as skeptics disparagingly call Argentina's agonizingly slow return to democracy, will be judged by how quickly...
...March election has, however, come under sharp attack from some quarters. Leftist spokesmen argue that the operation of right-wing death squads, current military restrictions on civil liberties and a long history of electoral manipulation in El Salvador rule out any chance that the election could be fair and free. The left, of course, is not expected to put up any candidates, since they would almost certainly be murdered. El Salvador's neighbors are also divided about the election. The Organization of American States last week voted 22 to 3 to back the election and send observers if requested...
...Venezuela last week merits dubious note. In a rare triple hijack, two Aeropostal Airlines flights and one Venezuelan Airways (Avensa) flight were seized shortly after leaving Caracas' Simon Bolivar International Airport. Eleven hijackers, believed to be members of Venezuela's Red Flag terrorist group and representing various leftist causes, got through airport security by passing themselves off as a band of musicians. They boarded the aircraft carrying grenades and automatic weapons concealed in instrument cases. No sooner had the FASTEN SEAT BELT signs been turned off than the three planes' 235 passengers and 15 crew members found...