Word: rightist
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...dire straits is correct, sending more advisors and funds will be at best ineffective, at worst catastrophic. Presumably, the Administration has no illusions about routing the leftists; the overwhelming majority of military experts affirm this is an impossible dream. So Washington no doubt hopes only to keep the rightist government in place as long as possible. The advisors and funds are nothing more than temporary measures that demonstrate an acute lack of long term vision...
...views, and fears that the Pope's action will be used by the insurgents as an endorsement of their cause. Ironically, the Pope may be greeted when he arrives by the man who has been accused of ordering the shooting of Romero: Roberto d'Aubuisson, 39, the rightist president of El Salvador's Constituent Assembly...
News from the political front in El Salvador has been slightly more heartening. After months of complicated maneuvering, members of the country's freely elected Constituent Assembly have succeeded in neutralizing that body's ultra-rightist President, Roberto d'Aubuisson, 39. Long accused of being a stumbling block to social and economic reform, D'Aubuisson has been foiled in recent at tempts to fill key government posts with members of his ARENA party...
...FIRST TRAGEDY struck in his childhood, when his mother criticized a superior in a mandatory criticism session during the Hundred Flowers movement. Then that movement became the Anti-Rightist movement, and her superior got revenge by labelling her a rightist, Liang's father divorced her and the children shunned her to avoid being politically "questionable", but the party which claimed to transcend family ties would not ignore them. The father's accusers used his ex-wife as evidence against him later, and when the sister proved her loyalty enough to become a Red Guard member, she faced the anguish...
...activists. But a majority of the evangelical and fundamentalist missionaries either sympathize with rightist regimes or accept the status quo and insist that spiritual conversion, not political action, is the true work of the Lord...