Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charge of fraud raised by the Jesuit-run Central American University in San Salvador [June 14] is a thinly veiled attempt by the left to take away a fairly won victory. Disappointed by the rejection of their twisted Marxist liberation theology, the religious left has now resorted to charges of fraud in an election in which the people turned out en masse to say no to the violent minority. El Salvador's was a truly democratic election...
...refugees.") An Israeli attack on the P.L.O. in West Beirut could arouse Arab anger even more, sowing new seeds of radicalism and terror among remnants of the Palestinian movement scattered throughout the Middle East. Said George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical Marxist branch of the P.L.O.: "If they got rid of all of us and not a gun was left here [in Beirut], the revolution will continue. There are secret organizations all over the world." Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saeb Salam similarly warned that "if Begin and Sharon are allowed to finish...
DIED. Granville Hicks, 80, literary critic; in Kendall Park, N. J. A member of the Communist Party from 1934 to 1939, Hicks created an intellectual storm with his Marxist critiques of American and British writing. He quit the party in disgust over the Nazi-Soviet Pact, and in his later years wrote mostly apolitical criticism...
...Western European support for Britain in the Falklands battle by threatening to turn to the Soviet Union for military aid. Last week Argentina announced that it was closing its consulate in West Berlin and considering opening new embassies in Mozambique and Angola, two African countries dominated by Marxist-led regimes...
...observations are dispiriting. The underlying theme coursing through these informative volumes is that there is a Chinese character no Marxist decree can alter. The rules of the Confucian code, the ancient tradition of decorum known as the li, remain. After 30 years, the People's Republic of China is still more Chinese than Communist...