Word: leftist
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...over-anxiously try to predict the new Administration's policies. For example, after sev eral meetings with Reagan advisers, a group of El Salvadoran businessmen went home with the erroneous impression that Reagan had decided to send military aid to help their nation's centrist government fight leftist guerrillas. To prevent further miscues, Allen warned Reagan's 120 defense and foreign policy advisers to be cautious in their conversations with reporters and visitors from overseas...
...House also announced that it was dispatching a fact-finding mission to El Salvador; it will be headed by William D. Rogers, who served as Assistant Secretary of State in the Ford Administration. The ruling junta blamed the murders on right-wing terrorists bent on stopping any buildup of leftist sentiment...
...Leftist leadership murdered...
...Jesuit San Jose high school on a busy street in San Salvador, rightists burst in, brazenly seized them, dragged them off and executed them. Hours later, their bullet-ridden bodies were found outside the city. The most prominent among them: millionaire Rancher Enrique Alvarez Cordova, a rightist turned leftist who headed the Democratic Revolutionary Front (FDR), a coalition of 48 leftist groups...
Still, it was Foot's stance as a party peacemaker, rather than leftist ideologue, that made his victory possible. For one thing, Healey's brilliant but abrasive personality had created a host of enemies, while Foot's genial ways had won him friends across the political spectrum. But the overriding reason that many moderate and even right-wing M.P.s opted for Foot was to avert an explosive crisis that has been shaping up in the deeply divided party...