Word: marxist
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...traditional teachings of the church. Since then the Vatican has attempted to restore a sense of doctrinal discipline; it removed renegade Swiss Theologian Hans Kung from his teaching post at the University of Tubingen in West Germany and silenced for a year Brazilian Franciscan Leonardo Boff, an advocate of Marxist-tinged liberation theology. Last week Rome moved against an American priest who has openly questioned the church's stance on sexual morality. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, revoked the license of the Rev. Charles Curran to teach theology...
Meanwhile, the Marxist government of Angola announced that it had repelled two attacks by South African forces in the southeastern town of Cuito Cuanavale. The Angolan Defense Ministry claimed that its troops had killed 95 South Africans. At the same time, UNITA, the U.S.-backed guerrilla movement that seeks to topple the Angolan regime, claimed responsibility for the attacks. The Reagan Administration laid the aggression to South Africa. "We do not condone any South African raid into Angola," said a State Department spokesman. In Pretoria, South African officials denied that any of their troops were involved but did not respond...
...site is postcard pretty: a turquoise ocean washes against a black sand beach rimmed by coconut trees. The perfect spot for a resort complex, complete with a 130-room hotel, bungalows, convention center and gambling casino. That planned capitalist paradise is on the Pacific coast of Marxist- led Nicaragua. The war-torn nation wants to build the resort to attract tourists from the U.S. and Canada and raise badly needed cash...
...figure out how best to present his sweeping 16-hour cycle. Wagner set the first production in timeless, mythic German prehistory. In his revolutionary postwar interpretation, the composer's grandson Wieland emphasized the influence of Greek drama on Wagner's aesthetics. French Director Patrice Chereau detected a 19th century Marxist dialectic at work with his controversial 1976 Bayreuth staging, while Set Designer Pet Halmen and Director Nicolas Joel used aspects of Kabuki drama in their recent Wiesbaden production...
...Soviet camp, he cannot economically afford to break with the U.S. and the West. While Moscow supplies the weapons to combat Ethiopia's rebels, only the advanced industrial nations can provide the financial and technological assistance that the country needs to develop its supine economy. Given his Marxist philosophy and nationalist instincts, Mengistu seems determined to walk the fine line between East and West...