Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lippmann's Jewish heritage barred his entrance to most college groups and organizations. The Crimson blackballed him. But Lippmann gained recognition as one of the keenest minds of his class. To strengthen his grasp of the moral issues socialism involved, he pored through volumes of Fabian society tracts and Marxist literature. He gained acceptance to the narrow circle of Harvard's academic elite: the favorite student of George Santayana, he was also on intimate terms with William James...
...Labor Party has long lived with its left wing in Parliament; 70 of its 268 M.P.s are members of the so-called Tribune Group, named for a leftist newspaper. The "radiclabs" from the grass roots are a different breed; proudly Marxist and in some cases revolutionary Trotskyists. London's Communist Morning Star boasted after the Blackpool conference that the British Communist Party, a scrawny organization with no more than 18,000 members, played "the crucial role" in "the historic turning point in the struggle for a new type of Labor government...
Garber said Barros is also likely to address the Orlando Letelier case, which has been a controversial point in U.S. Chilean relations. Letelier, the Chilean Ambassador to the U.S. under Marxist president Salvador Allende, was assassinated in Washington, D.C., in 1976, allegedly by agents of the Chilean military junta which overthrew Allende three years earlier. Chile has refused to extradite three military officials accused of plotting the killing...
...raid sirens wailed, thousands of Teh-ranis rushed to their rooftops shouting "God is great." Enthusiastic civilians almost shot down an Iranian F-4 trying to land at Mehrabad: they thought it was an Iraqi plane. Opposition parties like the left-wing Socialist People's Mujahidin and the Marxist People's Fedayan were captured by the patriotic fever and backed the war effort of President Abolhassan Banisadr's government. Even Reza Pahlavi, 19, the Shah's oldest son, who is studying at the American University in Cairo, volunteered his services from abroad as a fighter pilot...
...revenues (all in gold) in the basement of his palace. Finally, his Sandhurst-educated son, Qaboos, then 29, staged a palace coup and set about bringing the country into the 20th century. Today Oman boasts 375 schools and 14 modern hospitals. A rebellion in the Dhofar region, fanned by Marxist South Yemen, has been snuffed out as Oman, gatekeeper of the Strait of Hormuz, has built up its military forces. Oman has no large Palestinian presence; Qaboos' top advisers and military commanders are British-two factors that may help explain Oman's special relationship with...