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Word: marxist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Disbanded after World War II, the S.A.S. was revived in 1952 to fight Communist insurgents in Malaya. In Oman, the unit helped the Sultan repulse Saudi-backed rebels and Marxist insurgents. Gradually, the S.A.S. has focused on combatting terrorism. In Northern Ireland, where S.A.S. men have been posted since 1976, the unit is credited with halving the rate at which British servicemen were murdered by I.R.A. gunmen. One reason for the S.A.S.'s success has been its fearsome psychological impact on terrorists in South Armagh. So great is the S.A.S. reputation that European governments have often called upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Britain's S.A.S.: Who Dares Wins | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

...Marxist-ruled but predominantly Christian Ethiopia, the ousted Orthodox Patriarch was jailed in 1976. The general secretary of the Lutheran Church was twice arrested, then abducted in 1979, and has not been heard from since. Believers are forced to worship at dawn before the required Sunday-morning political indoctrination sessions. Some Christians have been tortured and murdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: An Imposing Messenger from Rome | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

...other nations conditions are improving. For example, the Marxist regime in Angola at first did its best to expunge religion, but the government relented after Catholicism stood up for its rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: An Imposing Messenger from Rome | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

...attitude toward religion is most perplexing in the People's Republic of the Congo. In 1977, Emile Biayenda became the second Cardinal in the century to be assassinated. But last month the nominally Marxist government of President Denis Sassou Nguesso established diplomatic relations with the Vatican and pleaded urgently to be included in the papal visit. The Congo needs to court Catholicism to shore up its popular support and counteract the influence of revolutionary religious sects that seek to overthrow the government. John Paul used his visit to remind Congolese officials that religious freedom is "at the center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: An Imposing Messenger from Rome | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

...time to come." Indeed, it was hard to imagine any lesser mortal replacing the gregarious and vital Tito, who, almost without challenge, had ruled Yugoslavia for nearly 35 years and his country's Communist Party for 41. He was, for many years, the Kremlin's least favorite Marxist-a maverick who wrested Yugoslavia from Moscow's grasp in 1948 to create an unorthodox Communism incorporating traces of free enterprise. He was also a defiant co-founder of the nonaligned movement that has become the dominant force in the Third World. In the year before his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Maverick Who Defied Moscow | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

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