Word: leftist
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...this long list of "isms" that compete with capitalism than any people on earth; after all, the flexibility of our system has served us well, both materially and politically, even if it has been at great cost to others elsewhere. There is no sight sorrier than a doctrinaire American leftist, bellowing bellicosities, handing out leaflets, lifting high the red flag of revolution, and getting nothing but scowls. We need a much more flexible value to instill, some sort of humanist concern that will allow us eventually to see the shortcomings of our own nation and to identify with the oppressed...
...dewy eyes of a cheerleader. Beatty and his co-writer, the British playwright Trevor Griffiths, have clearly done heaps of research on the politics of the period, but they have buried it all in the film's margins and between the lines; they use the Russian Revolution and leftist ideology to add texture, while dramatically the film is shaped entirely by the love story. When Louise (Diane Keaton) lures Beatty to her apartment for an interview, and he proceeds to lecture her on his causes till dawn, we hear nothing but a few liberal buzzwords and phrases; what's supposed...
...State Department's obsessive conclusion that all leftist movements originate in Moscow is based on too much raw emotion. It fails to evaluate the conditions unique to each country. Polarization of thought is more of a threat to democracy than any foreign ideology...
...comprehensive Middle East policy, the early emphasis on forging a strategic anti-Soviet consensus in the region has been balanced by giving more attention to resolving the Palestinian question. Latin-American policy has long been dominated by concern over El Salvador, which Washington charged was being threatened by leftist rebels whose support came from Cuba and Nicaragua. In a meeting with Nicaragua's Foreign Minister last week, Haig slightly modified the Administration's harsh rhetoric about that country's arms buildup and spoke of a possible normalization of relations between the U.S. and the left-wing government...
...fortune, usually of right-wing persuasion, who fought for pay in Mozambique or Angola and staged coup attempts in the Camores or Dominica. Most of those involved in the Seychelles operation probably did not know who backed the job. They were simply paid $1,000 each to oust a leftist regime, and promised a further $10,000 if the coup succeeded. But they failed. "They were the fledglings, not the real Wild Geese. Maybe that's how they came to mess it up," says Douglas Lord, a Johannesburg store manager and veteran of the Congo mercenary campaign...