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...leftist takeover is the most worrisome prospect to Washington policymakers. The Mujahedin (Islamic socialist) and Fedayan (Marxist) movements maintain guerrilla forces armed with weapons seized from the Shah's garrisons during the revolution. Both groups disclaim any ties with the U.S.S.R., and some Iranian exiles believe a dialogue between them and moderate forces would be possible. However, they are very antiWestern. A third contender is the Tudeh (Communist) Party, which has a reputation for loyally following Moscow's line. It is currently voicing all-out support of Khomeini because, its leaders disingenuously explain, any foe of America's imperialism...
...when a band of 200 to 300 well-armed raiders in November seized the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest of all Islamic shrines, which is under the protection of King Khalid. The raiders appeared to have mixed religious and political motives: they seemingly were armed and trained in Marxist South Yemen, but were fundamentalists opposed to all modernism, led by a zealot who had proclaimed the revolution in Iran to be a "new dawn" for Islam. It took the Saudi army more than a week to root them out from the catacomb-like basements of the mosque...
...Communists I knew, for many of them Communism became their whole life. Mike Gold, for example [editor of New Masses, a Communist political magazine]. He was an example of a very extreme Marxist, and not too bright at that. For him, breaking with the Party meant starting a new life. He couldn...
...Tooby is also quite glib about labeling our group as Marxist. Had he investigated, he would have found that many of us in the Sociobiology Study Group would be quite unhappy with this characterization. To dismiss all criticism of sociobiology based upon a misrepresentation of the political stance of one segment of the critics is a mark of dishonesty...
...enemies. So far the Soviets have treated the unrest in the region with relative restraint. But to the east, in Afghanistan, the Soviet role has been aggressive and heavyhanded. Within the past three weeks, according to U.S. intelligence estimates, the Soviets may have tripled their military assistance to the Marxist regime of Hafizullah Amin, which is fighting to hold its own against a country-wide rebellion by Muslim tribesmen. The Soviets are now believed to have 5,000 to 10,000 military advisers in Afghanistan, many of whom are actually directing some field operations...