Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heightened intellectual curiousity. What is more troubling, however, is Feldstein's effort to defeat the substantive mission of these sections with questions of procedure. Ec 10 would benefit from the inclusion of as many alternate economic views as time reasonably allows. Crucial, however, is some attention to radical or Marxist critique of the mainsteam, neo-classical model. Currently, this material is covered briefly in the coursewide program, but somewhat seriously only in the radical sections...
...indications, there are many such students. Section leaders report that, in the last several years, demand for places in the radical sections has exceeded supply by more than 100 percent. This despite the fact that the sections carry an additional workloard since students read the Marxist critiques in addition to the regular coursewide assignments. And according to Assistant Professor of Economics and former head section leader for the course Jeffrey A. Wolcowitz, these students performed slightly above average on the coursewide exams...
...Barry Goldwater, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, after a congressional probe last week into the deaths of two U.S. citizens in a helicopter crash in Nicaragua. The issue was whether the Administration was secretly encouraging private volunteers to join the contra rebels who are battling Nicaragua's Marxist-led government. The U.S. cut off covert assistance to the antigovernment forces last...
...fondness for the bold flourish. He took over part of the Spanish Sahara in 1975 by exhorting 350,000 Moroccans to march unarmed into the disputed territory while Spanish soldiers looked on in disbelief. He gained the upper hand in his eight-year desert war with the Marxist Polisario guerrillas by enclosing almost half of the 103,000-sq.-mi. Western Sahara with a 750-mile-long wall of sand and rock. Just last month he caught Western leaders off balance yet again by signing a treaty of friendship with Libya's notorious Muammar Gaddafi. Says a West European...
...Rome, he is wise to come prepared with cogent arguments, a respectful mien and, when possible, influential friends. Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff, 45, arrived in the Eternal City from Brazil with all three, but especially with friends. A leading exponent of liberation theology, a movement that often combines Marxist concepts with calls for social justice, Boff was asked by the Vatican to reply to a notification that his teachings were "considered dangerous," particularly in their appeal for a less authoritarian church. For support, Boff brought along two important Brazilian Cardinals, Paulo Evaristo Arns and Aloisio Lorscheider, both Franciscans...