Word: leftist
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...mysterious origins, mentioned the document's appearance only once, but the report's authors had guaranteed its longevity by sending it to those organizations who would revel in its conclusions--among them that the United States halt aid to the junta of Jose Napolean Duarte and consider aiding the leftist guerrillas. If the government was going to quietly wish the report farewell, church and human rights groups had a very different idea. Before long, they were xeroxing the document, advertising it, releasing press reports on it, passing it out to congressmen and their aides, and sending it all to newspaper...
Other crises in the hemisphere demand speedy resolution. The President must decide whether to increase military aid to El Salvador, which is plagued by a leftist insurgency and counterviolence from the right. Last week the Administration suspended economic aid to the leftist government in Nicaragua because it was supplying arms to the guerrillas in El Salvador. Soon Reagan must make up his mind about resuming military assistance to Guatemala, which came to a halt under the Carter Administration after alleged human rights violations. During the campaign, in fact, Reagan criticized Carter's rights policy for often hurting friends...
...weapons, bought in many places and stockpiled in Nicaragua, according to intelligence reports, had been smuggled by small plane to clandestine landing strips in remote areas of El Salvador. Nicaragua has repeatedly denied such trafficking, but the Sandinistas have proclaimed their moral support of El Salvador's leftist offensive...
Other members represent conflicting leftist isms ranging from Trotskyism to orthodox Marxist-Leninism to "Christian Socialism." Differences about strategy and tactics have also contributed to the revolution's fragmentation. The moderates, like Ungo, for instance, may one day choose the route of political compromise with the government if-and when-their military campaign is finally and decisively defeated. The diehard Marxist-Leninists like Cayetano, on the other hand, are likely to fight on indefinitely for what they regard as a class struggle to the death...
...there are those who would argue neither side deserves to win. Despite its commitment to a sweeping land reform program, the junta headed by Duarte has been tarnished by its inability to control the security forces, which have condoned and perhaps participated in the torture and execution of suspected leftists by right-wing death squads. The F.M.L.N., meanwhile, has managed to alienate much of its potential support among workers and peasants by answering violence with violence, brutality with brutality. Leftist death squads may be fewer in number than those on the right, but they are no less efficient...