Word: marxist
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...have been the permanent goals of Soviet strategy in Europe for thirty years. The SS-20s are only the latest, and most ominous, means to reaching these goals. The "peace movements" in Western Europe, while certainly not primarily the product of a Soviet peace offensive, have, as a good Marxist would put it, "objectively" served the foreign policy goals of the Soviet Union. They have tried and failed to convince a majority of the West European electorate that the Cruise and Pershing 2 missiles are part of an American effort either to launch a first strike against the Soviet Union...
...Honduran troops. It was part of a series of joint military exercises involving the U.S. and its staunchly anti-Communist ally. Though billed as routine, Big Pine II, as the exercises are called, reflected a major buildup of U.S. military might aimed largely at intimidating Honduras' southern neighbor, Marxist-led Nicaragua...
Even in the best of times, P.L.O. unity was something of a mirage. Arafat's achievement was to weld disparate and frequently feuding factions running the gamut from right to left, Islamic to Marxist, into a cohesive force. But a showdown became inevitable after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon last year...
Nicaragua's youth has become the focus of an increasingly tense struggle between zealots in the ruling Sandinista movement and those less eager to support the Marxist-led revolution. The trouble has been building since the government announced that all men between the ages of 17 and 22 would be required to register for armed service. Those who refused ran the risk of being imprisoned for up to two years, while anyone who employed an unregistered man was liable to heavy fines. Nonetheless, only 100,000 people, half of those eligible, signed...
...wing critics of current U.S. policy, LaFeber asserts that American over-reaction to Sandinista actually pushed Nicaragua into the arms of Cuba and the Soviets. A closer reality in the explanation given by former junta members that argues that Nicaraguan shift to the left was the result of the Marxist inspired Sandinistas emerging from an anti-Somoza coalition as the predominant political power. One fact LaFeber doesn't cite is that only eight months after rebels poured into Managua, and as U.S. aid was still coming in on a steady basis. Sandinista members of the junta declared that Marxism...