Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House asked Congress to lift the ban on aid to Angolan rebels fighting the Soviet-backed government there, a move that antagonized black African nations, because Angola supports guerrillas in neighboring Namibia righting to break free of white-ruled South Africa. The Administration also suspended food assistance to Marxist Mozambique in retaliation for the expulsion of four American diplomats. The State Department said the eviction was instigated by Cuban intelligence agents...
DIED. Chester Bitterman, 28, Protestant missionary who was kidnaped from the Colombian headquarters of Wycliffe Bible Translators on Jan. 19 by hooded terrorists claiming to represent the Marxist "April 19th Movement"; of gunshot wounds after 48 days in captivity; in Bogota, Colombia. Bitterman, the father of two, was found in a stolen minibus after the evangelical Wycliffe organization rejected a terrorist manifesto accusing it of being a CIA front and demanding that it pull out of the country...
...Cambridge court last week affirmed the eviction of Revolution Books, a store specializing in Marxist and Maoist literature, from its 233 Mass. Ave. home...
When such a situation coincides with an unusual accumulation of military power by Marxist-Leninist states, the opportunities for miscalculation are increased rather than decreased. That is why there is an overriding need for this Administration and for the American people-and indeed, for all of those who share our values-to insure, in the near term, that we are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to maintain the military capabilities that we must have...
...would serve notice on any potential aggressor that a move against the country or its oilfields could bring swift retaliation. Their exposed position is obvious: 4,400 miles of difficult-to-defend borders encircled by strategic problems. To the north, two radical neighbors, Syria and Iraq. To the south, Marxist South Yemen, teeming with East bloc advisers. Across the gulf, revolutionary Iran, which regards the Saudi monarchy as corrupt and Saudi society as decadent. To defend itself in this cockpit, the Saudis can deploy a 45,000-man army, a 4,000-man navy...