Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elysée Palace, Mitterrand followed the example of an Olympian predecessor, Charles de Gaulle, and stayed nobly above the battle. He continued to pursue a skillful dual strategy of playing to his left-wing constituency, while reassuring skeptics that he would not go off on a Marxist bender...
South Africa administers mineral-rich Namibia (pop.: 1 million, including 100,000 whites) under a 1920 League of Nations mandate that the U.N. formally revoked in 1966. Since then, Pretoria has had to fight a low-key guerrilla war against some 8,000 members of the Marxist-dominated and Soviet-armed South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). South Africa values Namibia as a buffer zone against Marxist Angola, a SWAPO haven. With 20,000 troops in Namibia, the South Africans have launched sharp punitive raids against SWAPO camps in Angola...
...aegis of a U.N. peace-keeping force. Last December it looked as if South Africa would grudgingly go along. A month later, it changed its mind. Among other things, the South Africans apparently feared that SWAPO would win control of Namibia at the polls, in the manner of Marxist Robert Mugabe last year in neighboring Zimbabwe...
...news of Wyszynski's death threw the whole nation into mourning, including, at least publicly, the leaders of the repressive Marxist regime that had once tried to gag him. Even the government press praised the fallen Cardinal as a "great patriot." While thousands of mourners filed past Wyszynski's flower-covered casket in Warsaw's St. Joseph's Church, Pope John Paul II, the Cardinal's countryman and longtime protege, sent a telegram to the Polish people from his Rome hospital bed, saying that he shared in their "pain and prayer...
...looked to Wyszynski for inspiration and advice: "The Cardinal's teachings brought us to the point we all dreamed about." Last week millions of Poles could say the same thing about a man who kept alive the dream of freedom and the flame of Christian faith in a Marxist state...