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...past 26 months, a total of 189 since the country became independent in 1825. Yet the Garcia Meza junta has shown itself to be unusually vicious. After gaining control of most of the country on July 17, it claimed that "electoral fraud" had given a plurality of votes to leftist Candidate Hernan Siles Zuazo in the June presidential elections. Because none of the candidates had won a majority, congress was to have chosen a President in early August. Siles Zuazo was expected to win easily, and would undoubtedly have picked new military chiefs. When the military stepped in, Siles Zuazo...
Investigators tended to give credence to the claim that the blast was the work of neoFascists, or so-called black terrorists, because of the mindless nature of the crime. Leftist terrorism tends to strike with selective assassinations, like the kidnap-murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro two years ago, Cossiga himself explained to the senate last week. "Black terrorism prefers the massacre because it promotes panic and impulsive reactions." The worst previous incident of terrorism in Italy, in fact, had been the 1969 bombing of a Milan bank that is widely regarded as the start of political terrorism...
...reforms failed to check the waves of political violence that have left almost 5,000 dead this year. Much of the killing has been the work of armed rightist gangs, who often operate with the approval of traditional elements within the military. But leftist guerrilla bands have countered with a ruthlessness of their own. The most spectacular example of this cycle of violence and counterviolence was the coldblooded murder last April of Activist Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, apparently by rightist gunmen. At his funeral, 35 people died in a stampede believed to have been sparked by trigger-happy leftists...
Conservative North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms has labeled White a "leftist" and a "dangerous ideologue," and he succeeded in holding up Senate approv al of White's appointment as ambassador for six weeks. In fact, White is on rec ord as be "It is very important that the armed leftist extreme not be victorious in El such and the U.S. will do everything it can to prevent such an outcome...
Turkey has been bedeviled by leftist violence since the late 1960s; with the rightists increasingly hitting back over the past ten years, the mood of violence is reaching a dangerous level. Gangs of extremists from both sides compete to take over and dominate whole villages and neighborhoods. Recently the army had to move into the Black Sea town of Fatsa, where a leftist government had assumed power with the help of an underground revolutionary group and was running things its own way. Sadly, the country's political leaders have been unable to unite completely in the face...