Word: leninistes
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...united to create the oil embargo and later to form the oil cartel. At the same time the Egyptians helped to seek an accommodation with North Yemen--the Arab Republic of Yemen, which subsequently sought relations with the Saudis. But Southern Yemen splintered and set up a Marxist-Leninist regime--The Democratic Republic of Yemen...
...tables again turned. In 1972 Egypt expelled the Soviet Union. In 1974, the Ethiopian emperor was overthrown by a Marxist-Leninist military group known as the Dergue. Saudi Arabia supported both Egypt and the Sudan with huge cash flows, helping both countries to break with the Kremlin. And in 1976 Carter became president. Shocked by Carter's "hands off" policy in Africa--specifically Angola, and now the Horn--and determined to keep the Soviets out of their backyard, the Saudis and Iranians pushed Sadat to seek direct negotiations with Begin, rather than concede to the American effort of bringing...
...offer free education (although the Communist parties have a great deal to say about who is admitted to the universities) and comprehensive health care. Sickness seldom imposes horrendous financial burdens on patients. The Physical Quality of Life Index (see map) shows that the essential human services provided by Marxist-Leninist states often match and sometimes top those in Western democracies...
...tanks crushed the abortive freedom fighters' uprising of 1956. Shy and self-effacing, Kádár has gradually eased the party's absolute control of society. In 1968 he introduced the New Economic Mechanism, the blueprint for Hungary's unique approach to a Marxist-Leninist economy. Hungary has carried out many of the reforms for which Czechoslovakia was branded a heretic by Moscow in 1968. "We haven't talked about 'socialism with a human face,' " says one Budapest journalist. "We simply put it into effect...
Hungary's price structure is less rigid than in most Marxist-Leninist states...