Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YEAR AGO last may five American correspondents in Lebanon were abducted by a Marxist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and held for 24 hours. According several accounts, the newsmen were stripped and lined up against a wall as if to be executed. Them they were released on the condition their employers not reveal the episode. Only an accusatory finger pointed by the Israeli Press Office eight months later forced the American media to disclose the affair...
...Belgium's Catholic University of Louvain, and was exposed to European leftist politics through books that were banned in his own country. His reading included news about the struggles of the Spanish Communist Party and the expulsion in 1964 of two prominent members, Writer Jorge Semprun and Marxist Economic Theorist Fernando Claudin, for breaches of party discipline. González realized his freedom-loving mind could never fit into so narrow a mold. Says he: "Claudin and Semprun are responsible for my being a Socialist today, not a Communist." González joined the party's youth wing...
...Correspondents Club, Guillermo Manuel Ungo, 51, president of El Salvador's Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), a leftist political alliance that boycotted last March's elections, faced an overflow audience. Alongside was Ana Guadalupe Martínez, a representative of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), the Marxist-led organization that unites the country's five guerrilla factions. Ungo and Martínez announced that their groups had offered to begin unconditional direct negotiations with the Salvadoran government to end the country's three-year civil war and to help reduce tensions throughout volatile Central America...
...Assembly if Israel were ever expelled. The greatest pressure for tough U.S. action is coming from conservative circles. In a forthcoming study, the Washington-based Heritage Foundation will take the U.N. to task for promoting a double standard on human rights, being consistently anti-American and antibusiness and aiding Marxist guerrillas. Calling upon the U.S. to downgrade its participation at the U N Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, argued two weeks ago: this is our chance to call...
...streak of violence marred the occasion. David Wright, 61, was teaching a class of ten-year-olds in the border town of Newry when a man burst through the door, unwrapped a sawed-off shotgun, and shot Wright twice in the chest. The Irish National Liberation Army, a Marxist splinter group of the outlawed pro-Catholic Irish Republican Army, claimed responsibility for the attack. The next day James Molyneaux, leader of the Protestant Official Unionist Party, fled his headquarters in downtown Belfast minutes before a bomb planted by the INLA exploded. On the morning of the elections, Molyneaux barely avoided...