Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many KOR leaders, like Sociologist Jacek Kuron, are former Marxist intellectuals who oppose the present police state and call instead for a more democratic, decentralized brand of socialism. An advocate of organized resistance rather than violence, Kuron nonetheless warned in the West German newspaper Die Welt last week: "The way things are going now, sooner or later there will be an explosion, the consequences of which will be a national tragedy...
...left, meanwhile, has managed to bring its faction-ridden forces together into a "Democratic Revolutionary Front" that combines Marxist guerrilla bands with more moderate reform groups. The guerrillas, who have some 3,000 men under arms, are not yet a match for the 15,000-man Salvadoran army. But they have long promised a full-scale military insurrection, and there are signs that it may soon get under way. Skirmishes between guerrilla bands and army units near the Honduran border last month left at least 30 soldiers and 100 guerrillas dead...
...rightist backlash in Guatemala. The main source of right-wing violence is the Secret Anti-Communist Army (ESA), a vigilante organization that appears to enjoy the cooperation of the country's repressive military leaders. The group's avowed mission: "Annihilate the left"-meaning anyone from a Marxist guerrilla to a moderate reformer. As in El Salvador, victims of ultraright hit squads include university students and professors, journalists, union leaders, priests and opposition politicians, many of whom have been tortured and mutilated. Armed leftists, meanwhile, have launched sporadic guerrilla attacks, including the bombing last month of a military convoy...
...reconstruction plan. The Carter Administration has offered $156.6 million, including a $75 million package pledged last November but appropriated by Congress only a month ago. The embarrassing seven-month delay was due to a protracted debate led by Republican Congressman Robert Bauman of Maryland, who railed against aiding a Marxist-leaning government. The modest amount of the U.S. package, moreover, was hardly an impressive show of support from so wealthy a nation, as Castro was able to point out to his Nicaraguan hosts...
...died of a heart attack last week in London, he was still officially untitled, but he had more than earned his royal mirthright. In a career that spanned four decades, Sellers played a German scientist, an R.A.F. officer and the President of the U.S. in Dr. Strangelove; a Cockney Marxist in I'm All Right, Jack; an Indian doctor in The Millionairess; a French detective in A Shot in the Dark; a dowager and her friends in The Mouse That Roared. He impersonated celebrities as varied as James Bond and Queen Victoria, and when literary conceits seemed impossible...