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...American B-52s and FB-111s flying from forward bases in a friendly country, or?the worst-case scenario?the use of nuclear options by the U.S. Some military experts argue that Soviet gains in the Middle East or Southwest Asia are more likely to be achieved by leftist subversion of established regimes than by armed aggression. Valuable though the R.D.F. may be, it would hardly have the capacity to prevent the pro-Western rulers of Saudi Arabia, say, from being toppled by radical Arab neighbors or by an internal, popularly supported revolution. But it may make those who would...
...strongholds. In the meantime, the P.L.O. announced that it had launched the latest in a series of rocket attacks on northern Israel as a "down payment" on its promised retaliation for the "air massacre" that the Israelis had committed in Beirut. At week's end an alliance of leftist Muslim groups in Lebanon called for the stationing of Soviet-made SA-6 antiaircraft missiles in Beirut. Such a move would challenge Israel's command of the skies over the city; it would also increase the danger of further escalation by one more deadly notch...
...tung, the party's Great Helmsman, who died in 1976. Although his power is still not supreme, Deng was able to shunt aside Mao's hand-picked successor to the chairmanship, Hua Guofeng, 61, who was accused of creating a "personality cult" around himself, committing "leftist errors" and opposing the policies advocated by Deng. Relegated to the positions of lowest-ranking Vice Chairman and junior membership in the Politburo, Hua was also obliged to resign as head of the Central Committee's Military Commission, which runs the army, a key post that was taken over by Deng...
...radical image dates from 1968 when a group of Maryknoll priests and nuns sided with leftist guerrillas who were hoping to bring down the government of Guatemala. Two of them then got married and, as Thomas and Marjorie Melville, wrote a book called Guatemala: The Politics of Land Ownership. The incident is still well remembered in Central America. Rightly or wrongly, the Maryknollers have acquired such a name for activism that when a gun-toting Irish priest named Donald McKenna joined the current group of leftist guerrillas in Guatemala, some reporters automatically referred to him as a Maryknoll Father, which...
Once he graduates, the high-level functionary enters a separate social world. He will have his own preferred clubs (Polo de Bagatelle, Racing Club de France, Cercle Interallié) and discussion groups. One of the latter that is likely to rise in popularity is the moderate leftist Club Jean Moulin, named for France's great hero of the Resistance, a kind of open forum for discussion of advanced political ideas...