Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raised a new controversy -- and won some surprising backers -- throughout the country. The book, South Africa: The Solution, proposes a Swiss-style confederation that would include a weak central government and 306 local bodies that could choose their own economic and social systems. Black radicals could set up Marxist cantons if they wished, and Afrikaner right-wingers could have their all-white enclaves. Everyone else could choose various systems somewhere between the extremes...
...Last week Reagan made a formal request to the lawmakers to release the last installment of $100 million in aid that was granted to the Nicaraguan contras in 1986. To win the release of the $40 million, the Administration had to certify that peaceful efforts to reform Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista regime have been futile. Congressional Democrats hope to counter Reagan's move by imposing a moratorium on any further contra aid until the Administration accounts for money that has already been sent to the rebels, including the funds diverted from the Iranian arms sales and contributions solicited from private...
Laub--who is charged with three criminal violations--identified himself as a member of the International Committee Against Racism (INCAR), a Marxist student coalition. He is free on $15 bail and will be arraigned Monday...
...Soviet side, they cite Brezhnev's support for communist revolutions in Indochina, the 1973 Egyptian and Syrian attack on Israel, Cuban involvement in Angola and the Marxist coup in Afghanistan as examples of "unilateral" actions. And for the U.S.? Only America's exclusion of the Soviet Union from the Middle East peace process...
...problems are crowding in, and will be exacerbated by the fallout from the Tower commission report. The most immediate and, for Reagan, disastrous effect may be the collapse of the contra campaign. The contras are central to the so-called Reagan doctrine of helping rebels wage guerrilla war against Marxist governments in widely scattered areas of the globe: Afghanistan, Angola, Kampuchea. But the contras cannot carry on their rebellion without continued U.S. assistance. The Tower report shows the extent to which North, Poindexter and the CIA went, in circumventing the law, to slip arms to them during a period when...