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...four months to Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and for years to some of his closest aides, two weeks ago gave haven to Raja'i's predecessor, the ousted Abolhassan Banisadr, and to one of the Iranian Islamic regime's most dangerous foes, Massoud Rajavi, head of the leftist guerrilla organization called the Mujahedin. Despite an agreement to refrain from political activity while in France, Banisadr has been issuing combative statements and preparing a government-in-exile...
From the general jubilation it seemed that confidence about the national past might stand at least as good a chance of turning things aright as members of the left do. Whatever else it may have been, surely this was not their day. Ken Livingstone, radical leftist leader of the Greater London Council, spurned his invitation to the wedding and spent the day in an empty office building doing "paperwork." Up in Derbyshire, in the town of Clay Cross, residents resisted the plan of the left-dominated town council to hold a "republican day" on the 29th and instead festooned their...
...Rother and his congregation, like many Guatemalan villagers, were caught in the middle of the undeclared civil war that since 1978 has pitted the security forces of President Fernando Romeo Lucas García against leftist guerrilla groups operating in the highlands. Both the army and the guerrillas had taken over the village during the past year. Apparently suspected of sympathizing with the leftists, a number of Rother's parishioners were murdered while the village was under army control. Rother may have sealed his fate by writing a letter, which was reportedly circulated in the U.S. last January, describing...
...precise statistical breakdown is available, but most outside observers agree that the right is responsible for the overwhelming majority of the killings. Much of the violence is the work of government security units, which are waging an all-out campaign to crush the small but growing leftist guerrilla movement. In addition, paramilitary rightist groups like the Secret Anti-Communist Army (E.S.A.) appear to do their murderous work with the tacit cooperation of the government. Amnesty International traces the headquarters for most of the right's secret operations to the Presidential Guard Annex of the National Palace...
While the leftist groups can be just as ruthless as the right, they kill fewer people and choose their targets more selectively. The rightists, on the other hand, are likely to gun down anyone they consider ideologically "suspicious," including priests, teachers, students, journalists, labor leaders and liberal politicians...