Word: leftwards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part, the document is the revenge of conservative bishops who were caught off guard by the sudden move leftward at Medellin. Indeed, the secretariat that prepared the agenda for that 1968 conference was loaded with progressive and radical thinkers, among them a Peruvian priest, Gustavo Gutiérrez, who later wrote the influential A Theology of Liberation. But since 1972 the secretary-general of CELAM has been Bogotá's Auxiliary Bishop Alfonso López Trujillo, a staunch young conservative. With the Vatican's encouragement, López Trujillo cleaned out the secretariat, installing priests and laymen...
Hersant has held an assembly seat from the Oise region just north of Paris since the 1950s, though a 1976 study by the newsmagazine Le Point found him to be the least effective of 228 majority members of the legislature. His Oise constituency's steady march leftward prompted Hersant to seek election this time from solidly conservative Neuilly. The incumbent, Gaullist Florence d'Harcourt, was expected to drop out of the race...
Most recently, Ethiopia broke off a major, multi-million dollar HIID contract in 1975, during the leftward shift of the Ethiopian government that followed the deposition of Emperor Haile Selassie...
...Justice, where he prosecuted war fraud cases. A close associate of Senator Harry Truman, he was appointed Attorney General when Truman became President, and an Associate Justice four years later. Clark initially aroused Truman's ire by joining the court's conservative wing, but gradually moved leftward as a member of the Warren Court. He wrote several far-reaching liberal opinions, including one prohibiting mandatory Bible reading in public schools, and another forbidding state criminal prosecutors to use evidence seized during illegal searches. To avoid conflict-of-interest charges, he retired from the court in 1967 when...
...fighting has waxed and waned ever since the late 1960s, when guerrillas began fighting to bring back exiled Dictator Juan Domingo Perón. The two main factions: 1) the Montoneros (bush fighters), who originally supported Perón but turned increasingly leftward and broke away after his return to power in 1973; and 2) the smaller ERP (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, or People's Revolutionary Army), a Cuban-influenced outfit with Trotskyite ties...