Word: ultraleft
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...finished a distant third in the 1994 contest for Los Pinos palace. Despite his illustrious pedigree--he lived at the palace in the 1930s, when his father Lazaro was one of Mexico's most popular Presidents--the more people saw of Cardenas the less they liked him. His ultraleft ideology was a turnoff, and his plodding campaign style made voters ready for a siesta...
...meeting with Chirac. One reason for the heavy precautions: that morning a bomb had exploded at the American School of Paris, located in the suburb of Saint-Cloud. There were no injuries. On the school's wall was inscribed the legend ACTION DIRECTE, the name of an outlawed ultraleft organization...
...Some of the hissers said later they were "feminists"; sure John Paul is bad on abortion, but so are all past popes and likely many future ones. It goes with the job, sort of like the hat. And some of the objections were from purebred members of the American ultraleft, the Sparts for instance. Their hissing made much more sense, for Catholicism, and in particular the rise of John Paul II from his Polish bishopric to the Vatican, made this revolution possible. If religion breeds docility in some places, and surely it does, it can also have the opposite effect...
...Cultural Revolution hardened his own resolve, Zhao says, it taught the nation a lesson. "The ultraleft line was carried to its logical conclusion and was thoroughly discredited in the eyes of the people," he says. "The Cultural Revolution paved the way for the current reforms." He disagrees with those who believe that revenge alone is what powers current policies. For example, Zhao argues, the trial of the Gang of Four is a reassertion of the authority of written law after a period when "the top leaders' words were law." "It's very easy to gain vindication," he says, dismissing...
After becoming President on a law-and-order platform, Araña tried briefly to moderate his strongman image. But terrorist kidnapings and murders continued-mostly by the ultraleft F.A.R. (Rebel Armed Forces). Araña, a former counterinsurgency chief who is credited with wiping out 3,000 people during an antiguerrilla campaign in northeastern Guatemala between 1966 and 1968, heard mounting calls for a crackdown. Finally, after four policemen had been gunned down by guerrillas in two days, Araña imposed the state of siege and a 9 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew. Soon the blood began...
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