Word: leftist
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...From Amsterdam to Bonn to London to Rome, marchers with BAN THE BOMB banners and antinuclear badges are loudly protesting attempts to reinforce Europe's nuclear deterrent forces. What is perhaps most remarkable about the phenomenon is that it is no longer seen only in traditional radical and leftist circles. TIME Senior Correspondent William Rademaekers reports that it is creeping into the ranks of major political parties, youth organizations, church groups, ecology movements, even into Chambers of Commerce...
...price of land reform in blood and repression has been cruelly high. Some expropriated landowners are believed to be supporting the right-wing death squads, whose killing and brutality are intended to bring back the old feudal days. The leftist guerrillas have also resorted to violence, since successful land reform deprives them of a major popular grievance...
...waiting at Ilopango Air Force Base on the outskirts of San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. The sergeant, a helicopter maintenance mechanic, is understandably camera shy: as one of the 19 Americans sent to El Salvador by the Carter Administration last January, he is a prime target for leftist guerrillas. Anonymity is his best defense...
...shaky military-civilian junta now ruling El Salvador, sending not only American weapons but military training personnel. If that help enables the junta to prevail, the U.S. would indeed have broken a string of American setbacks and Communist successes. But if the junta should fall, either to the leftist guerrillas or -equally bad-to a coup by rightists misusing American aid, Washington would suffer an unnecessary setback round the world. The European allies and several friendly Latin American regimes, which agree with the goal of stopping the arms flow, might be confirmed in a budding suspicion that Washington is being...
...confound our resolve." So said Ronald Reagan in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last July. At that moment, half a world away, a Communist leader from El Salvador, Shafik Jorge Handal, was visiting Soviet-bloc countries in search of arms for Ms country's leftist guerrillas. In retrospect, the chain of events that made El Salvador the first focus of the new Administration's foreign policy seems inexorable...