Word: marxist
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...Marxist revolution deposed Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, who had more or less looked out for the Falashas. Declaring himself a direct descendant of Solomon. Selassie used the existence of Ethiopian Jews to legitimate his claim. But the Marxists who deposed him had no such interest in protecting the Falashas...
When the Sandinistas overthrew Anastasio Samoza in 1979, the U.S. deserved no credit. President Jimmy Carter long supported the hated dictator, pressuring him to step down only when it became clear a Marxist victory was likely. Still, the new Nicaraguan government was eager to maintain good relations with the United States. But Washington responded by denying Nicaragua all trade and aid, a move that forced the Sandinistas to look elsewhere for help. Moscow was only too happy to oblige...
...about government power. This gap between expectations and performance (or, in Huntington's brushed-chrome lingo, between ideals and institutions, abbreviated as the "IvI gap") fuels our volatile periods of creedal passion. "The ideological challenge to American government thus comes not from abroad but from home, not from imported Marxist doctrines but from homegrown American idealism...
...first time in El Salvador's four-year-old war against 4,000 to 6,000 Marxist guerrillas, members of the government's 22,000-man security forces were being brought to judicial account over the deaths of noncombatants. Even before the judge's decision, Salvadoran President José Napoleon Duarte, in a national television address, called the men "the only and the true guilty ones" in the crimes. Duarte seemed particularly anxious to squelch accusations that the murders might have been ordered by higher authorities in the Salvadoran military...
...civil war in El Salvador. Precisely because the American debacle in Indochina was such a protracted, painful and preoccupying episode, it is sure to come to mind whenever the U.S. faces circumstances that are even superficially similar. Television coverage of El Salvador has provided some gnawingly familiar images: Marxist-led peasants vs. patrols of boy soldiers in ill-fitting uniforms and G.I.-style helmets, ambushes and massacres in the jungles, a trickle of American advisers into the embattled country, and, back in Washington, a Secretary of State telling a skeptical Congress that this is where the U.S. must draw...