Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...open secret that the contras, as they are known, were receiving advice and logistical assistance from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Yet, by Western diplomatic estimates, only 2,000 to 3,000 rebels were involved in the insurgency, far too few to oust the increasingly unpopular Marxist-led Sandinista government, which is named after a Nicaraguan nationalist rebel of the 1930s, Augusto César Sandino, and took power in 1979 after the overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle...
...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...
...various battlefronts were murky, confused and conflicting. Casualty figures and claims of triumph were trumpeted confidently, but without verification, by both sides. Only one fact was certain in Nicaragua last week: a new level of clandestine guerrilla warfare was under way in the tiny Central American republic. Ironically, the Marxist-led Sandinista government that overthrew Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979 now seemed to face an insurrection very similar to the one that brought the Sandinistas to power. At a hastily arranged press conference in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra declared last week: "We consider...
...Corps as well as black-voter-registration and labor-organizing campaigns. But even in his radical student days he was strongly antiCommunist. In 1980 he and his wife, in what became known as the Jessup Report, totaled up $442,000 in Methodist moneys aiding groups he judged to be Marxist or totalitarian, and sent the list to the denomination's financial overseers...
Rivera was both Kahlo's hero and her baby, a relationship that endured through their marriage, divorce, remarriage and intervening separations. The 300-lb. painter can be summed up in a series of lingering images: a robust hulk on a scaffold, applying bright Marxist idealizations to the walls of public buildings; a blustery reveler brandishing a revolver to ensure attention; a celebrated philanderer openly displaying his conquests; and a monumental infant seated in a bathtub full of floating toys while Frida lathers his plump breasts...