Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...changed. The Saudis felt threatened by a sequence of ominous events: the overthrow of the Shah of Iran (who in 1977 had ordered AWACS planes that fortuitously were never delivered); the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Ethiopia's increasing emergence as a Soviet ally on the Horn of Africa; Marxist South Yemen's attempt to overthrow the traditionally westward-leaning regime in northern Yemen. The Saudis began pressing for precisely the fuel tanks and bomb racks (Sidewinder missiles were added later) that Brown had said they would not get. When war broke out between Iran and Iraq, both Americans and Saudis...
...MORE than fitting that the religion the twentieth century chose to bequeath to history was psychoanalysis. More grimly deterministic than anything any Calvinist or Marxist could conceive, it is proper faith of a century in which men seem to get better at doing just about everything while events get more and more absurdly out of control. Revealed through the agency of a Viennese Jew who alternately wore the hats of humanist, scientist, prophet and pariah, psychoanalysis is a creed without a salvation. There are no elect, and the priesthood does not claim to be holier than the laity. Adhered...
...Spanish acronym COSEP, a politically powerful association representing the country's embattled private business sector. Earlier this month the Sandinista government threatened to close down La Prensa. Last week the Sandinistas moved against COSEP. After publicly accusing the government of egregious economic mismanagement and "an undeniable Marxist-Leninist line," four leaders of COSEP were summarily arrested and jailed by Sandinista security forces. So were 22 members of the Communist Party for criticizing government economic policy. Said former Junta Member Alfonso Robelo: "The detention is one more example of the climate of horror that my country has begun to experience...
Labeling Papandreou a Marxist-Leninist, he warns: "The slogan allagi covers the most dangerous subversive efforts with a shroud of mysticism...
...student at an American school in Peking when he joined the Communist Revolution in 1948. Like "80 per cent of the students and intellectuals," says Yao, he "did not join because of any Marxist orientation, or because we were Russophiles," but because of the ruling government of Chian Kai-Shek--a regime he considered full of "the most corrupt animals, I won't even say humans...