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...struggle over the troubled future of Central America grew fiercer last week. In El Salvador, Marxist guerrillas scored a psychological triumph with a surprise raid on the country's economic heartland; for the first time a U.S. military adviser was wounded. In Honduras, a major display of U.S. military logistics was intended to send an intimidating message to neighboring Nicaragua's Sandinista government. At the same time, the covert border war against the Sandinistas heated up, even though the Marxist leadership seemed more entrenched than ever. Reports from the scenes of battle...
...Times is the subject of yet another Harvard postcard, though in a less flattering light. "The Marxist-Socialist-liberal New York Times is a treacherous brainwasher that can be dangerous to your mental health...
...revolution" has degenerated into a vulgar application of Marxist slogans in a country where they do not apply. Rawlings has declared a "holy war" against Ghana's few professionals-- doctors, engineers, lawyers-- calling them an exploitative class, and going as far as setting up an intricate administrative system to weed out those seeking government jobs. The attack is absurd on a group which has never held power, and it has helped insure the government's own ineptitude...
...collection. Another is the consistent political stance that emerges. A staunch believer in representative democracy, MacLeish quickly identified threats to the ideals of the Republic he believed in, whether from the left or the right. In the early thirties he was one of the first to attack the Marxist positions fashionable among writers and critics. An early objector to the House Un-American Activities Committee, he drew McCarthy's public condemnation, though he never actually had to testify. He detested Communism as "rotten with the diseases from which all established police state suffer," but thought it should be combatted...
Later, more reckless radicals, with less patience for theories and manifestos, linked universities to the planning and execution of the Vietnam War. They vowed to raze academia along with the rest of the Establishment to permit a "fresh start" for American society. In April 1969, a Marxist splinter group of the fast deteriorating SDS led a forceful takeover of Harvard's University Hall, telling the majority of the campus leftists, who had opposed the occupation. "You and the administration are the same thing, and we will smash you both...