Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recent news reports have drawn the attention of Harvard students to the plight of Chew Kheng Chuan '82, who has been imprisoned in Singapore since May 8 on charges of participating in a "Marxist conspiracy" against the government. Singapore's Internal Security Act (ISA) permits the indefinite detention, without charge or trial, of any person suspected of posing a threat to national security...
...calling for the territory's independence. The accord is expected to be signed by the U.S., South Africa, Angola and Cuba at a ceremony in Brazzaville. Though a hopeful start, the accord leaves Angola's underlying dispute unresolved: the tribal conflict that pits some 310,000 fighters loyal to Marxist President Jose Eduardo dos Santos against Jonas Savimbi's tenacious UNITA guerrilla movement...
...vote was a turning point on Chile's long road back to a nearly 150-year tradition of democracy, which was toppled in the 1973 coup that brought Pinochet to power. Since ousting the elected, but floundering, government of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens, Pinochet has led a military junta that routinely uses terror to enforce its will. Deep scars remain from a 1973-76 antileftist purge in which tens of thousands of Chileans were exiled, tortured or executed. Meanwhile, the politically explosive gulf between rich and poor has steadily grown wider. "We broke an authoritarian system," said Ricardo Lagos...
...finally the granting of independence to Namibia, now near consummation in Brazzaville. Many states in the area are just as eager as South Africa to speed the departure of 50,000 Cuban troops from Angola as a prelude to ending the 13-year Angolan civil war between the Marxist government and South African-backed UNITA rebels. The attraction of sharing credit for bringing peace to southern Africa is exerting a magnetic pull on leaders who would not otherwise associate with Pretoria...
...initiatives. Last August he pulled the South African Defense Force out of Angola. He has agreed to a Nov. 1 deadline to set in motion the long-delayed independence process for Namibia. Afrikaner skeptics are muttering that independence for "South West," as they call Namibia, will just bring another Marxist government to power on South Africa's borders. Botha is using coverage of his road-show triumphs to counteract angry charges of "surrender" from the right-wing Conservative Party, which threatens to score large gains in national municipal elections...