Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the past two years, President Reagan has charged Nicaragua with exporting Marxist revolution throughout Central America. Some have accused the U.S. of training Nicaraguan exiles and former National Guardsmen for an overthrow of the Sandinist Government...
...Reagan, the region's economic strains offer a chance to continue his two-year-old Latin American crusade against communism. Past Administrational-Marxist policies have included extensive military support for the besieged right-wing government of E1 Selvador, and the concentrated use of financial and military weapons to weaken the socialist leadership of Nicaragun. And, after marking Cuba as a primary source of Marxist "trouble" in the region, Reagan effectively banned business and tourist travel to the island last Mary...
...become more sensitive to human rights violations in El Salvador, while Roach has joined Reagan in denouncing oppression by the Marxist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua...
...Stalin's orders. This time, however, the scourge is not a paranoid and murderous dictator. It is old age. Most top officials in the country's ruling bodies are the same age as the majority of Politburo members: in their 60s and 70s. Roy Medvedev, the independent-minded Marxist historian living in Moscow, believes that younger men will move into top positions around the time of the 27th Communist Party Congress in 1985. "The political wheels grind very slowly in our country," he says. "A man who suddenly comes out of nowhere, like Jimmy Carter, is an American phenomenon. Here...
Hinton delivered his warning at a luncheon meeting of El Salvador's influential American Chamber of Commerce. In accented Spanish, he told 300 Salvadoran business leaders that they must begin to face up to the most grisly aspect of their country's three-year civil war against Marxist-led guerrillas: the murder of some 30,000 Salvadoran civilians and at least six Americans at the hands of paramilitary death squads widely believed in most cases to have connections with the local security forces. It was a subject, Hinton told his audience, that "so many of you, because...