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...week Beckurts, 56, lost his battle against ter rorism. On his way to work, Beckurts and the driver of his gray BMW limousine were killed 875 yards from his home when a hidden roadside bomb blew the vehicle across the road and into a fence. A letter filled with Marxist jargon was found near the blast, and identified those responsible for the attack as West Germany's Red Army Faction. The letter claimed that Beckurts, a participant in technical meetings on the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, represented "the current phase of the entire imperialistic system...
...could face prison terms if convicted. Four independent radio stations, one of them run by the Roman Catholic Church, were ordered to halt news broadcasts during the protests. Strike organizers were especially encouraged by the participation of truckers. In 1973 a crippling work stoppage by drivers against the Marxist-oriented government of Salvador Allende Gossens helped prompt the coup that brought Pinochet to power...
...appeals judge, Scalia has been almost gratuitously antipress. He dissented from an opinion by his rival for the high court, Judge Bork, that threw out a suit by Bertell Ollman, a New York University professor who had been vilified as a Marxist by Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Bork held that the column was merely opinion and thus protected speech; Scalia argued that it was "a coolly crafted libel." In his 100-page dissent, Scalia wondered why columnists, "even with full knowledge of the falsity or recklessness of what they say, should be able to destroy private reputations...
...other hand, consuming American pop is not necessarily a kind of pro- Americanism. The Rambo look is all the rage among guerrillas in Beirut. The Sandinistas are American baseball nuts. Says Peruvian Writer Augusto Ortiz de Zevallos: "You see Marxist-Leninists with T shirts that say COCA-COLA." In the view of Marc Pachter, a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, foreigners may turn to the left precisely because they like American pop so much. At least in Europe, argues Pachter, youthful political anti-Americanism is a way of "justifying their enormous thirst for American pop culture. As long as they...
...Mexico and the U.S. with his murals and left behind a huge output of easel paintings, drawings and prints. Few 20th century artists have been as popular in their own societies. None is more relevant to the debate over "indigenous," or "national," art language as against "international style." A Marxist who read little Marx, he found a deep well of pictorial eloquence in the traditions and miseries of the campesino. "For the first time in the history of art," Rivera claimed, "Mexican mural painting made the masses the hero of monumental...