Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Without U.S. guns and money, the Salvadoran army might well be defeated by the guerrillas. The victorious leftists could support Marxist insurgencies in neighboring Guatemala and throughout the region. In short, Washington's worst domino-theory nightmares could result from the very elections on which the U.S. had pinned its best hopes. Said Congressman Stephen Solarz: "If a government of the right is formed, it will indeed turn out that the elections paved the road to disaster...
...interim President and prepare for national presidential elections. Contending factions in the assembly are likely to cause further agonies for the country and more problems for the U.S. as it tries to help stabilize and reform the country. To make matters worse, the 4,000 to 6,000 Marxist-led guerrillas who opposed the election have vowed to continue to fight regardless of the voting outcome...
...choice, as In El Salvador, between a right-wing dictatorship and a Marxist dictatorship. I would fight both. Dictatorship is dictatorship, independent of its color...
...State Al Haig waved a photo spread from the French Figaro of the "most atrocious genocidal actions" in Nicaragua, which proved to be an old picture of something else. State then proudly produced a live Nicaraguan guerrilla captured in El Salvador who proved to be a slick young Marxist recanting all he had been expected to say. Still, the difficulty the Administration has in making, or selling, its case was evidenced in an ambitious prime-time CBS News report on Central America. CBS sent Mike Wallace to Nicaragua, Ed Rabel to Guatemala, and Bill Moyers to El Salvador...
...didn't care as much as they might like to have other people think they care about the individuals in the situation....They were willing to say there should be a bloody revolution and five million people will get killed and after that there will be a nice Marxist government or socialist government. And their priorities I thought were strange....I think it's one of the most reprehensible regimes on earth because it has a constitution which infringes on people's rights purely on the basis of their color. On the other hand, I think the Soviet Union...