Word: leftist
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...touch to make statistics come alive: observing that the national debt is approaching $1 trillion, he remarked, raising his arm, that a trillion dollars stacked up in $1,000 bills would make a pile 67 miles high.* At least some opponents in the TV audience were grudgingly impressed. California Leftist Tom Hayden, 40, who opposes the program as inequitable, nonetheless judged Reagan's presentation "one of the most substantial speeches by an American President in my lifetime...
...Salvador has I been transformed into a textbook case of indirect armed aggression by Communist powers." With that stark assertion, the Reagan Administration last week launched a carefully orchestrated campaign to demonstrate that the Soviet Union, Cuba, Viet Nam and other Communist nations have been smuggling arms to the leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. The Administration's motive is to win support for increased U.S. military aid to that strife-torn nation, and the intensity of the effort is stunning...
...Spartacus Youth League is in this context. This is not a question of agreement with the political perspective of the SYL but a question of democratic rights. If the administration's harassment of the Marxist SYL is not protested, a dangerous precedent will be set to witchhunt every leftist, every union member, every Black, every minority on this campus. An injury to one is an injury...
...Chancellor's quandary is how to discipline the increasingly restive left wing of his party. Leftist protests have increased ever since Schmidt reacted to a weakening economy by slashing $8 billion from the 1981 federal budget last November. At the same time, under pressure from the U.S., Schmidt also announced a 1.75% increase in defense spending. Suddenly faced with the prospect of frozen welfare spending and cuts in foreign aid and environmental programs, some 50 leftist deputies in the normally well-disciplined 218-member Social Democratic faction in the Bundestag broke ranks. Their rebellion threatened to undermine Schmidt...
Then came last month's offensive by El Salvador's leftist guerrillas...