Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stiffer resistance. Lengths of wire were strung across the road at the height of a horse's fetlock and a rider's neck. Telephone poles were ripped down and used as battering rams against police lines. The authorities and some miners blamed the renewed violence on hardline Marxist infiltrators...
...Napoleón Duarte prepares to assume the presidency of El Salvador, those land problems are once again under intense scrutiny, both at home and in Washington. At issue is the four-year-old U.S.-backed attempt to bring about social change in El Salvador and undercut support for Marxist-led insurgency among the country's 2.3 million rural inhabitants. The means: a sweeping land-reform program, akin to the one attempted by the U.S. in Viet Nam from 1970 to 1975, that aims at a radical transfer of scarce acreage from El Salvador's former feudal oligarchy...
...drama was playing to a packed house. Some 4,000 Nicaraguans crowded into the modernistic Don Bosco Church as the new head of the country's nine-member Roman Catholic Episcopal Conference, Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, used harsh language to describe the plight of his flock under the Marxist-led Sandinistas. Said Vega: "The tragedy of the Nicaraguan people is that we are living with a totalitarian ideology that no one wants in this country." While the priest spoke, nearly a dozen military Jeeps circled the building. Says a church spokesman, the Rev. Bismarck Carballo: "Our relations with...
...argue that divestiture activists should tone down their rhetoric because they're hurting President Bok's feelings. After all, he is a grown-up, and used to being dumped on by everyone from A. Bartlett Giamatti and John "Harvard Hates America" LeBoutillier '76 to the most diehard would-be Marxist revolutionary...
...WHAT is all this flagwaving about? As far as political symbolism goes, the actions of Ritchie Bradley makes a strong example for Sparts to point to and prove that they are not just Marxist political rhetoric. The incident in San Francisco will join ranks with the Sparticists' rally in Washington November of 1982 to stop the Klan from marching, and the fight on the University of Mississippi campus to ban the Confederate flag there...