Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Symbolically, it may have been. In practical terms, the 228-to-195 House vote Thursday night to shut off covert U.S. aid to the contra guerrillas who are fighting the Marxist government of Nicaragua will have no immediate effect. The Republican-controlled Senate almost certainly will not approve a similar bill. So the contras' campaign will continue?though whether the Administration can persuade Congress to renew U.S. support for the guerrilla struggle, much less double it as President Reagan wants to do in the new fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, is now in doubt...
...prestige of an America that could not stop the spread of a hostile force in what Reagan has called the nation's "front yard." Finally there is the threat that U.S. leaders rarely mention but that weighs heaviest on the minds of geopolitical analysts, namely, that successful Marxist revolutions in the small states of the isthmus could pull Mexico to the left, confronting the U.S. with a populous (75 million) enemy along a 2,000-mile, at present, undefended border. It is not only in Washington that this thought crops up. Soviet officials have mused aloud about how much easier...
Policy made in such an ad hoc manner has left important questions unanswered. Is the U.S. in fact committed to overturning Nicaragua's Sandinista government, or only to harassing it enough to keep it from fomenting Marxist revolution throughout Central America? Reagan and his advisers have made statements that can be interpreted either way. How serious is the Administration about promoting negotiations for a regional agreement that would ban all foreign military advisers and cross-border arms shipments in Central America? Reagan last week had Special Envoy Richard Stone hand-carry a letter to the Presidents of the so-called...
...Administration would like to see an increase in aid, there are divisions about how much, over how long a period and in what form. Kirkpatrick insists that the trouble in Central America is primarily economic and social: the poverty, hunger, illiteracy and disease that win masses of recruits for Marxist revolution. She has long advocated a "Marshall Plan" for the area that would provide a sharp and continuing increase in aid well into the future. Three times she wrote a recommendation for such a plan into drafts of Reagan's April 27 speech to Congress; all three times, State Department...
...Fekete. His name could not be more Hungarian. He is introduced as the favorite Eastern banker of Western bankers, the man who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to keep the Hungarian economy afloat. Yet he is described by you as an avowed Marxist and master at using Western financial methods. If the Communist system had been established in the Western nations at the same time it was forced on the countries of Eastern Europe, where would János Fekete have gone to borrow all those millions of dollars...