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...Lanka has been in ceaseless turmoil for more than three decades. During the 1970s and '80s, Marxist radicals in the south engaged in a fierce campaign against the government and were just as brutally put down. The conflict with the L.T.T.E. was sparked in 1975 when the Tigers assassinated the mayor of Jaffna, Sri Lanka's northernmost city, and intensified after the killing of 13 soldiers in 1983. Fighting has gone on for so long now that it has brutalized an entire society, creating a culture of violence that haunts the country whether there is fighting...
...Abortion on demand, even in the first trimester of a pregnancy, is still illegal in all but three small countries in predominantly Roman Catholic Latin America (Cuba, Guyana and Barbados). In fact, abortion prohibitions in some countries there have gotten stricter - even in Nicaragua, where the former Marxist revolutionary Daniel Ortega recently became President again, but where the staunchly pro-life Catholic Church last fall influenced passage of the hemisphere's most draconian ban on abortion...
DOROTHY DAY The co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933, Day was a dedicated servant to the poor. Before converting to Catholicism, she wrote for several Marxist publications. She's a candidate for sainthood...
...Washington Post reported that some proceeds from the Iran sales had been placed in a CIA-managed Swiss bank account also used to fund the rebel forces in Afghanistan as well as Jonas Savimbi's troops fighting the Marxist government in Angola. Citing a "well-placed senior Administration official," the Post claimed the U.S. and Saudi Arabia had each placed $250 million in the account this year. Commingling the Iranian proceeds with these funds was described by the Post's source as a "dumb" mistake by an impatient CIA employee who did not wait for the creation of a separate...
Carlucci has seen firsthand the risks involved in covert actions. While he was at the CIA during the Carter Administration, the agency ran a secret operation to infiltrate and destabilize Marxist-ruled South Yemen. It ended in the execution of twelve agency operatives...