Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then, it was back to the usual anti-Communist rhetoric, and in a big way. "Very simply. "Reagan explained, "guerrillas armed and supported by and through Cuba are attempting to impose a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship on the people of El Salvador as part of a larger imperialistic plan." The United States, he continued, will do "Whatever is prudent and necessary to insure the peace and security" of the region. We can only presume that asking Congress for an additional $135 million in economic and military aid for EI Salvador represents such "prudent and necessary" action. And plainly, cutting the last...
...limits of U.S. involvement in Central America. But even as he once again cleared the air, Reagan further obscured it. The President saw no point in telegraphing any of the other moves that Washington may have in mind to deal with a region that is stubbornly aboil with Marxist-inspired insurrection, and where the Administration feels that vital U.S. interests are at stake. As Reagan put it at his White House press conference: "I just don't believe that you discuss those options or what you may or may not do in advance of doing any of those things...
...region: the climate of public uncertainty surrounding U.S. action in tiny, embattled El Salvador. The reason is that a propaganda battle of substantial proportions is being waged alongside the war between El Salvador's civilian-military government, backed by the U.S., and 4,000 to 6,000 Marxist-led guerrillas that Washington charges are being supplied with arms from nearby Nicaragua and from Cuba...
...well-wishers bearing pennants and portraits of the Pope. Fully half the population of Bata, capital of tiny Equatorial Guinea, came out to greet him and threw palm branches to blanket his path. In neighboring Gabon, a special residence for the Pontiff was built in two weeks. Even the Marxist state of Benin fell under the spell, as posters with Bible quotations went up next to Communist slogans...
...Marxist revolution deposed Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, who had more or less looked out for the Falashas. Declaring himself a direct descendant of Solomon. Selassie used the existence of Ethiopian Jews to legitimate his claim. But the Marxists who deposed him had no such interest in protecting the Falashas...