Word: rightist
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...from the outset: businessmen sent badly needed investment capital abroad, distributers and the rightest press teamed up to exacerbate the notorious shortages, Patria y Libertad began to strike with bombings and assassinations. Although Allende encouraged the Left to organize outside the government, he never responded in kind to the Rightist attacks. He went so far as to bring the military into the government for stability as the Right's offensive peaked in late summer...
Solzhenitsyn nominated Sakharov for the peace prize in a surprisingly choleric and wide-ranging 3,000-word article for Oslo's daily Aftenposten. In it, he attacked Western liberals for what he termed their readiness to denounce oppression in rightist countries and their reluctance to criticize the Soviet Union. "Such profound hypocrisy is characteristic of American political life today," Solzhenitsyn continued, referring to Watergate. "Without in any way defending Nixon or the Republican Party, I am amazed at the affected, loudmouthed wrath of the Democrats. Wasn't American democracy full of mutual deception during previous election campaigns...
...single film, Pasolini's Orestiad was presented, and Bertolucci's pseudopolitical Before the Revolution was dusted off, but Fellini received no recognition, and Visconti figured only as the object of indignation at news that the director was abandoning professedly leftist views to make his next film for a wealthy rightist publishing concern...
Better to try and "liberalize" the military rather than butt one's head against a stone wall trying to destroy it, the argument continues. And what better way to insure that the army refrain from rightist adventures than to put Harvard men in its leadership? Surely, compassionate and humane Ivy Leaguers in uniform will protect us against all those proto-fascist stump-jumping hillbillies from the South and midwestern cow colleges...
...bitter division has tarnished the old dictator's second coming. On the very day he returned, less than three months ago, to live again in Argentina, the factions turned a mammoth welcoming party into a mutual massacre. More than 100 people died and hundreds more were injured as rightist and leftist elements raked each other with gunfire in a huge meadow near Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport...