Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buffer between the Indian Ocean and Saudi Arabia, Oman (pop. 948,000) is on a permanent state of alert against its neighbor to the southwest, the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, or South Yemen, which has the only Marxist regime in the Arab world. Until early 1976 South Yemen fueled a rebellion inside the Dhofar province of Oman, and South Yemen still keeps nine infantry and three artillery battalions, plus 60 Soviet-made tanks, just across the Oman border, as well as 160 more tanks in the rear. The Soviets are expanding an air base at Al Ghaida...
Since he took over the Socialist leadership in 1974, González has built a reputation for moderation. In 1979, for example, he persuaded the party to drop the term Marxist from its platform. He has supported the government on such issues as antiterrorist laws and regional autonomy, and proceeded to mold the party in the pattern of social democratic parties elsewhere in Western Europe. The result has been growing public confidence in the party's ability to govern...
BALTIMORE. Md.--Bertell Ollman, a Marxist professor of political science at New York University, recently appealed a United States district court's ruling that denied him a position at the University of Maryland...
...toniest restaurant or visiting the Valley of the Fallen, Spain's grandiose monument to its Civil War dead, the compañeros loudly dispute the merits of their beliefs: the Gulag vs. the Inquisition; Stalin vs. Judas; Brezhnev vs. Franco. The priest veers toward an ecumenical humanism; the Marxist sighs for a materialistic Utopia. They agree only about the culture that confronts them. Says Quixote: "It's an absurd world or we wouldn't be here together...
...Turkish envoys. Their goal: forcing the Turks to acknowledge committing the act of genocide, to pay reparations to the descendants of the victims, and to grant autonomy to the former Armenian-dominated provinces in northeastern Turkey or give them up altogether so they might become a separate nation. The Marxist, Beirut-based ASALA and another group called the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide have killed 22 Turkish diplomats or members of their families and staffs, and have wounded 15 other envoys or their dependents. In addition, there have been 70 casualties, including four deaths, among people who, though...