Word: marxist
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...anti-Communist policies of the Reagan Administration. There also were harsh diplomatic exchanges between the nuclear superpowers, each accusing the other of complicity in the region's simmering conflicts, while both Soviet and American warships showed the flag in the Caribbean. In El Salvador, government soldiers and Marxist-led guerrillas played a deadly game of hide-and-seek at a crucial political juncture. In neighboring Honduras, controversy broke out anew over a U.S. military presence that the Reagan Administration describes as temporary but that is potentially a good deal more permanent...
...election propaganda faded, the rattle of gunfire in the background grew louder. Both the 30,000-member Salvadoran army and some 10,000 members of the Marxist-led Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) launched election-eve offensives, each claiming that the tide of the four-year civil war was turning in its favor. Some 4,000 Salvadoran troops fanned out through the country's eastern departments, where the guerrillas are dominant, to harass the rebels and to protect the elections. For their part, the elusive guerrillas launched a countercampaign under such slogans as "No to the Electoral Farce...
...month representatives of the South African and Angolan governments negotiated a historic cease-fire in the smoldering, nearly 18-year-old war along the Angola-Namibia border. This raised new hopes for a breakthrough in the long-stalled negotiations over Namibia. Then last week in Havana, Angola's Marxist President, José Eduardo dos Santos, and Cuba's President, Fidel Castro, unexpectedly issued a joint communiqué setting forth terms for a withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola...
...withdrawal of South African troops from Angola, where until recently they have been waging hit-and-run offensives against the Marxist-oriented guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), Namibia's black liberation movement...
...which Chile's Marxist President, Salvador Allende Gossens, was overthrown and killed...