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...people on a moped, the 51-year-old father of two was shot four times. A group calling itself the Red Brigades - the same band of left-wing terrorists that carried out previous attacks - claimed responsibility. In a rambling manifesto posted on the Web, the group spewed antiquated Marxist-Leninist rhetoric and praised the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
...veteran leader of Angolan rebel group unita, killed in a gun battle with government troops, according to the army; in Angola's remote Moxico province. Savimbi founded UNITA in 1966 to fight Portuguese colonialism, but when the country gained independence in 1975 he lost power to the then-Marxist MPLA, which has remained in government ever since. He won support from the West by portraying himself as an anticommunist freedom fighter before becoming internationally isolated after refusing to accept the results of the country's first-ever elections in 1992 and then rejecting three subsequent peace accords, ensuring the continuation...
TIME: You're associated with the left, yet your reform program is that of a free-market liberal. BLANC: I'm from the left, but I am indeed a liberal. The French left is hostile to liberalism due to its Marxist roots, and our conservatives are too rooted in centralism and infatuation with the large, "dirigiste" state. France is governed by a huge population of civil servants who believe they know how to effectively legislate free markets...
...showing 87% support outside Beijing went unreported because "it was deemed too low," says Victor Yuan of Horizon Research, which conducted the study. Ordinary Chinese will never read a quote saying the Games "will bring Beijing's corruption to the world's attention," as Zhao Hong, a teacher of Marxist philosophy in the distant city of Kunming, told Time. And they don't know that a member of the banned China Democracy Party, Shan Chengfeng, wrote an open letter in December asking the IOC to press for the release of her activist husband and "every political prisoner," or that...
...enthusiastic but gentle and shy. The Saudis first began to be worried about bin Laden in 1990, after he returned home from Afghanistan still hungry for more jihad. Soon after, according to Turki, bin Laden began taking veterans of the Afghan war to North Yemen to fight the Marxist regime in the Republic of South Yemen. "North Yemen is an arms market. You can buy a weapon anywhere. He had to be stopped," says Turki. "The kingdom said, 'You have done your best to help the mujahedin in Afghanistan. Leave it at that.' He was not pleased...