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...left is a diverse, sometimes unlikely group, as varied in its personalities and ideologies as the alphabet soup of its political parties, grass-roots organizations and guerrilla armies. It is only within the past year that the leftists have tried to overcome their old antagonisms and unite under the umbrella of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) for a "final offensive" toward their common objective: the overthrow of the civilian-military junta and the installation of a revolutionary regime...
While the tide of battle continued to go against the guerrillas, exiled leaders of the F.M.L.N. assembled a new seven-member "diplomatic-political commission" in Mexico City. The leader of this umbrella group is Guillermo Manuel Ungo, 49, a Social Democrat who was President Duarte's running mate in the 1972 elections, as well as a member of the original junta that replaced the military in October 1979. Apparently embarrassed by the guerrillas' failure to produce a mass uprising, the commission insisted that the current offensive was not, after all, the "final" one. But what goaded the guerrillas...
...mass rally, the culmination of a day's protest activities involving people from Boston, Birmingham, Ala., Chicago and Greensboro, N.C., was sponsored by the People's Counter-Inaugural Committee, an umbrella organization co-chaired by Michio Kaku '68 that represents more than 150 groups agitating for civil rights, prison reform, women's issues and nuclear safety...
unprecedented predicament. After decades of virtually absolute security beneath the American nuclear umbrella, the members of this alliance will soon be inferior to the Warsaw Pact in many crucial areas of military power. NATO will have to find the will and the resources to limit the duration of this perilous inferiority, or risk being defeated from its own underbelly, the source of its raw materials. Free of bullying and insensitivity, Washington must inspire, urge and cajole other NATO nations to make the decisions that will be neither straightforward nor easy...
...latest episode ended last week in another triumph for the workers. At issue was the charter of Solidarity, the umbrella group representing some 50 Polish labor unions and 10 million workers. A lower court had inserted a provision into the charter recognizing the "leading role" of the Communist Party. Claiming that its independence had been compromised, Solidarity threatened a series of strikes unless the authorities agreed to put the supremacy clause in an annex. In the predawn hours last Monday, government negotiators finally caved in to their Solidarity counterparts; later that day, the supreme court overturned the lower court...