Word: pro-communist
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F.A.R.C. consists of 2,050 guerrillas backed by an additional 5,000 people in "civil defense cadres" spread mainly throughout the countryside. Armed with modern weapons, pro-Communist F.A.R.C. has proved a match for the 65,000-man Colombian army, which it has been fighting for the past 28 years. The government hopes the new cease-fire arrangement will encourage other militant factions to enter into similar agreements. Betancur, a co-founder of the Contadora group that has been trying to bring peace to Central America, also believes that the pact with F.A.R.C. demonstrates that negotiations are a workable alternative...
DIED. Wilfred Burchett, 72, Australian journalist whose pro-Communist sympathies undercut the credibility of his many newspaper dispatches and books written behind the Iron Curtain in Europe and Asia, including wartime reports from North Korea and later North Viet Nam; of complications from a liver ailment; in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he had lived for the past year...
...picturesque mountain town straddling the Thai-Burmese border. While Thai border police patrol the streets, three mercenary armies camp atop a 7,200-ft. mountain near by. Among them are Khun Sa's mercenaries and their local allies. In the surrounding jungle are the rival forces of a pro-Communist warlord known as ABe. Periodically, bursts of machine-gun fire echo down the mountainside. Ambushes are frequent, and victims seldom receive a proper burial. Says a Western narcotics agent: "There seems to be only one rule when warlords fight. Kill anything that moves...
...Pro-Communist clubs which "didn't want to call themselves Communist, called themselves John Reed Clubs," Pipes said...
...Vietnamese action was swift. China, which invaded Viet Nam early last year "to teach Hanoi a lesson," warned of the "grave danger" of such military adventures. "In dealing with wolves, it will have merely limited effect to raise a hue and cry," editorialized Hong Kong's pro-Communist daily Ta Kung Pao. "Only with the use of a big stick or of guns can the wolves be driven away or beaten to death...