Word: leninists
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...another murky incident unfolded when the Sandinistas revealed the mysterious suicide in Nicaragua of one of El Salvador's most important guerrilla leaders, Salvador Cayetano Carpio, 63. Cayetano Carpio was the head of the rebel faction known as the Popular Forces of Liberation, the most determinedly Marxist-Leninist of the country's guerrilla organizations. According to the Sandinistas, he took his own life on April 12, after the equally mysterious assassination in Nicaragua a week earlier of his No. 2 guerrilla commander, Melida Anaya Montes, better known as Ana Maria. The Nicaraguans announced the arrest of five other...
...Soviet military establishment, Holloway explains, grew out of the need to defend the young Bolshevik government against civil war and foreign intervention. When it became obvious that the Russian Revolution would not be followed by similar uprisings in the West, leaders of the Soviet Union quickly abandoned the Leninist concept of a people's militia in a well-equipped standing army that would ardently defend "socialism in one country." Upon accession to power, Stalin committed the Soviet Union to "catching and overtaking the capitalist countries." Holloway finds the early roots of the arms race. As he goes on to show...
...divorce from any discussion of nuclear arms. Holloway, like many American officials, seems undecided on how much of Soviet action derives from its stance as protector of the socialist faith and how much from its role as super-power. In the end, he attributes too much to Merlots-Leninist doctrine and not enough to sheer Machiavellian power...
...pluralism and representative democracy and freedom of the press. We do think that there is a chance for self-government to emerge in an area that has long lived without it. We regret the success that antidemocratic forces have had in convincing too many people that a Marxist-Leninist victory would amount to self-government, that guerrillas are always supported by the majority, that no civilian casualties are caused by the rebels and that leftist victories are always inevitable . . . We don't think that the declarations of the Nicaraguan junta, Soviet press agencies and Fidel Castro should go unexamined...
...called the Institute on Religion and Democracy, which set off the present furor (see box). Last week the I.R.D. produced a 100-page booklet with more documentation for its sweeping claim that the foreign policy activity of many Protestant agencies "often leans in some significant ways toward the Marxist-Leninist left...