Word: marxiste
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...bishops' main concern is that both sides in the conflict now view peace talks as no more than a tactical tool to further their military aims. The Salvadoran army has been gaining ground in the countryside against the Marxist-led FMLN. For their part, the guerrillas have warned that they intend to bring the war back to the streets of San Salvador, the capital. CUBA Castro's Fugitive Guest...
...stake was Reagan's determination to resume U.S. aid, both humanitarian and military, to the Nicaraguan contras who are trying to overthrow the Marxist Sandinista regime that has ruled since 1979. Faced with growing opposition in Congress to his plan, which even some Republicans view as unwise, the President went on a personal crusade for $14 million in assistance to the rebel forces. Reagan compared the disparate guerrilla factions, whom he calls freedom fighters, to America's Founding Fathers, and took to picturing their cause in terms little short of apocalyptic. Said Reagan: "We cannot have the U.S. walk away...
...handing over power to another elected government. Although the official results will not be announced for a month, Garcia, leader of the center-left Popular American Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), unofficially captured 48.7% of the vote, a better than 2-to-l lead over his only significant rival, Lima's Marxist Mayor Alfonso Barrantes Lingán, who headed the ticket of the United Left, an agglomeration of eight leftist and Communist parties. Voters overwhelmingly rejected the Popular Action Party of outgoing President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, whose policies have failed to alleviate Peru's worsening economic crisis. The party's candidate, Javier...
...exists and not to attempt to reshape the Soviet Union. "If the evil empire exists," he said, "let it exist." He also repeated what he said he had told Mrs. Thatcher during his visit to Britain last December: "I have no hope of turning you into a Marxist," implying that his listeners had no hope of turning him into a non-Marxist...
...Ethiopia, the Marxist regime of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam has at last begun allocating more trucks to carry food to remote regions of the country. Mengistu has also agreed to permit relief groups to set up several food centers in the northern provinces of Tigre and Eritrea, where he had blocked aid shipments to areas controlled by rebels...