Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conflict between militant Islam and the Communist left has also created troubles elsewhere. Last week's May Day demonstrations were marred by violence throughout Iran. In Tehran, Muslim zealots known as Hezbollahis (members of God's party) attacked the rallies of two leftist groups, the Marxist Fedayan and the Islamic socialist Mujahidin. The attackers used rocks, clubs, knives and iron bars, leaving scores of leftists injured. In his May Day speech Khomeini accused the leftists of treason and of collusion with the U.S. The truth is that the Fedayan and the Mujahidin are best united in their hatred...
Claiming that the recent decision not to offer a professorship to Eugene Genovese was based on his Marxist orientation, Professor Martin L. Kilson, Jr., writes "That this petty and obscene resort to McCarthyite use of ideological criteria for faculty appointments at Harvard, hardly a week after President Derek C. Bok issued his courageous and cogent memorandum denouncing such McCarthyite behavior in our universities, was offered to the Harvard community without explanation also defies belief...
...doctrinaire Marxist, Ismail seized power in mid-1978 as head of a triumvirate that overthrew (and executed) President Salem Robaye Ali for "laxism toward reactionary states." Ismail strengthened his country's ties with Moscow and last year signed a friendship treaty with the U.S.S.R. Soviet arms and experts poured into South Yemen, raising the specter of a Soviet-run military base near the oilfields and shipping lanes of the Persian Gulf. Ismail proved to be such a loyal friend of Moscow's that he was the only Arab head of state to endorse openly the Soviet invasion...
...avowed Marxist state in the Middle East, South Yemen has long been something of a problem to other Arab states. Neighboring Oman has protested the South Yemeni government's support of rebels in its Dhofar region. Even radical Iraq gave aid and comfort to Yemeni exiles at odds with Ismail. The Saudis have long been worried by Ismail's attempts to unite his country with non-Marxist North Yemen by force of arms. At home, meanwhile, Ismail was constantly at odds with his own Politburo and achieved such unpopularity that Moscow eventually agreed it was time...
Nasser Muhammad is also a Marxist but, unlike his predecessor, apparently has a gift for compromise. In his first speech as President, he praised the friendship treaty with Moscow and vowed: "Our party will continue to struggle for Lenin's principles." At the same time, Nasser Muhammad began patching up quarrels with his neighbors. Within a day of taking office, he sent a special envoy to Saudi Arabia, whose approval is essential for unification with North Yemen. That goal may be closer than ever. Replying to a friendly overture from Nasser Muhammad, North Yemen's strongman, Lieut. Colonel...