Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AFGHANISTAN. With Syria and Marxist South Yemen dissenting, the conference passed a Saudi-backed resolution committing Tunisia, Guinea, Iran and Pakistan to assist U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in seeking a settlement. It stopped short of condemning the 1979 Soviet invasion, but called for the withdrawal of the 80,000 Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq reported "intimations of flexibility" from both the Soviets and their puppet in Kabul, Babrak Karmal. But the militant Afghan rebels, in spite of their close relations with the Saudis, adamantly refused to sit down with representatives of Karmal...
Chapin was ambassador to Ethiopia until July, 1980, when he was expelled by Ethiopia's Marxist government. He has been deputy assistant secretary for Inter-American Affairs in the Defense Department since December...
Other members represent conflicting leftist isms ranging from Trotskyism to orthodox Marxist-Leninism to "Christian Socialism." Differences about strategy and tactics have also contributed to the revolution's fragmentation. The moderates, like Ungo, for instance, may one day choose the route of political compromise with the government if-and when-their military campaign is finally and decisively defeated. The diehard Marxist-Leninists like Cayetano, on the other hand, are likely to fight on indefinitely for what they regard as a class struggle to the death...
...Sunday, Nov. 4, 1979, did not seem at first to be unusually menacing. The Iranians chanted "Death to America," but demonstrations had periodically rumbled around the embassy before in the ten months since Shah Reza Pahlavi had been forced out of Iran by the Muslim revolution. In February, Marxist guerrillas had seized the embassy and held it for nearly two hours. That time, forces loyal to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, in what now seems the sourest of ironies, came to the rescue of Ambassador William Sullivan and some 100 embassy employees. Since then the ambassador had left, dependents had been...
...participant in the talks was Sam Nujoma, president of the insurgent, Marxist-oriented South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), which the U.N. has recognized as "the authentic representative of the Namibian people." Nujoma was ready to sign a supervised cease-fire agreement that would end fighting between 7,000 to 8,000 SWAPO rebels and 20,000 South African troops in Namibia by March 31. U.N.-supervised elections, to be held seven months later, would lead to eventual independence. Despite the U.N.'s endorsement of SWAPO, he said that his organization would accept "equal status...