Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreign policy officials see the current diplomatic progress as a vindication of the Reagan Doctrine, under which the U.S. has supplied arms to anti-Marxist "freedom fighters" around the world. "A common thread was the emergence of a balance of forces that has convinced the parties involved that a military solution isn't possible," says Michael Armacost, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. "It was our policy to help preserve that balance, making a political solution more likely...
...plant. Strict laws forbid the sale except on two-day weekends of the so-called Yemeni vodka, which has a disastrous effect on productivity. Women are free from most Islamic restrictions, able to choose the chador or the dress. In fact, the country adheres little to either Muslim or Marxist strictures. Liquor is sold, and the Communist Party numbers only 20,000 members...
NOTHING SACRED George F. Walker wryly adapted Turgenev's Fathers and Sons so that student anarchism in 1860s Russia paralleled the polemics of Marxist collegians in 1960s America. Tom Hulce (Amadeus) starred in the first of a raft of U.S. stagings, at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum...
Another obstacle to peace may be Jonas Savimbi's forces. Since 1975, Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), with U.S. and South African backing, has been waging guerrilla actions against the Marxist MPLA Angolan government. Savimbi has vowed that there will be no peace in Angola until he and his political movement become a recognized part of the MPLA government. "If not," warned UNITA spokesman Alcides Sakala, "we will intensify our struggle, we will continue...
...most concrete reason for the West's 40-year rivalry with the Soviet Union is the thrusting, threatening nature of that empire. Historic Russian expansionism, the Marxist-Leninist ideology of global class conflict, and a Kremlin mind-set that security can come only through the insecurity of adversaries have combined to create a nation whose defensive instincts can be frighteningly offensive. In his speech, Gorbachev proposed to preclude any "outward-oriented use of force," a phrase that nicely captures the essence of Soviet military policy since World War II. More important were his promised troop cuts, not just their numbers...