Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, the Reagan Doctrine is taken to mean that the U.S. will no longer seek just to contain but will try to roll back the spread of Soviet- aided Communism. This it will do by actively assisting, and perhaps even trying to create, resistance movements struggling against Soviet-allied Marxist governments in the Third World. Said Stephen Rosenfeld of the Washington Post, writing in Foreign Affairs: "The Reagan Doctrine goes over to the offensive. It upholds . . . the goal of trying to recover Communist- controlled territory," especially in countries "where the Marxist grip is relatively recent and therefore presumed light...
...times too the Administration turned to secrecy for operations it could have conducted openly. Congressman McCurdy recalls asking Jonas Savimbi, the leader of anti-Marxist guerrillas in Angola, whether he desired open or covert aid. Savimbi replied that he wanted the clearest possible expression of American support, so in 1986 McCurdy and a bipartisan group of legislators voted to provide aid overtly -- only to be opposed by the Administration, which insisted on arming the guerrillas on the quiet, for diplomatic reasons...
...result of the incident, the legislators in 1984 toughened the so-called Boland amendment to forbid any U.S. military aid to the contras. But by then some officials felt so committed to bringing down the Marxist Sandinista government that they were driven to circumvent, if not outright break, the law. Some Reagan officials have since taken refuge in legalistic quibbles about exactly what the Boland amendment prohibited. In truth, the amendment, like Congress's whole policy toward Nicaragua, was no model of clarity. But North, according to one participant in his schemes, knew full well what he was doing. According...
Barbie's defense during the trial was in the hands of his controversial lawyer, Verges, a flamboyant Marxist with strong sympathies for Third World causes. The lawyer, who is known for taking on the legal defense of accused terrorists, brought in to help him Jean-Martin M'Bemba, 45, an attorney from Brazzaville in the Congo, and Nabil Bouaita, 36, a lawyer from Algiers. In the closing days of the trial, Verges and his two aides began the long-advertised attempt to put France rather than Barbie on trial. Verges sought to shift the focus of attention from Barbie...
Indeed, constitutions are living documents that are constantly being created and reshaped. Voters in the Philippines went to the polls in January to approve a new charter, the country's fifth, that prohibits human rights violations and retains Corazon Aquino as President until 1992. In Nicaragua this year, the Marxist-influenced Sandinista leadership unveiled that country's twelfth constitution in 149 years. Haitians in March approved their 23rd charter since 1804 in the country's first free election in three decades...