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Some conversations must have been delicious, but none more so than the polite phone call made by Vice President Dick Cheney, once a bitter opponent of Marxist liberation movements in Africa, to the Soviet-educated, former communist President Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola. Generally, the Administration got a good reception. "We're realistic enough to be on the side of the 800-lb. gorilla rather than between the gorilla and Iraq," confessed a senior diplomat from one Council member nation. China and Russia, both with veto power in the Council, said Powell's speech had changed little, but neither...
...None of the Americans was identified.) The murdered American was the first working for the U.S. government to be killed in Colombia's civil war. The four-decade-long conflict has already claimed 150,000 lives. The group behind the El Nogal bombing and the Caquetá killings - the Marxist, 18,000-member Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), the country's largest guerrilla army - has been branded a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department (as has the A.U.C., an umbrella group of vicious right-wing paramilitary armies, and a smaller leftist group known as the E.L.N.). Last week, Uribe...
...blow came with the arrest last fall of the group's leader, Mullah Krekar, while he was passing through the Netherlands en route to Norway, where he is applying for asylum. Krekar, a Marxist turned cleric whose real name is Najmuddin Faraj and who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan, flatly denies that his group has ties to al-Qaeda or Saddam. "I never had links with Saddam's family, government, party--not in the past, not now, not inside Iraq or outside," he told the BBC last week in Oslo. Ultimately, Kurdish officials are less impressed with the group...
COLOMBIA I.R.A. in Court The trial of three Irish men accused of training Marxist guerrillas resumed as prosecution witnesses testified amid heavy security. Niall Connolly, Martin McCauley and James Monaghan, all allegedly linked to the I.R.A., refused to appear in court, claiming they would not get a fair trial...
...been interested in Marxist theory for a very long time, partly because of my historical experience in growing up in a formerly communist country, and partially because of my family’s involvement with Marxist theory,” he says...