Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into the double grip of famine and civil war since winning independence from Portugal in 1975. As many as 6.5 million Mozambicans could face starvation as a result of drought and the depredations of the rebels known as the Mozambique National Resistance, or Renamo, whose support comes from right-wing sources in South Africa and the U.S. Determined to oust the Marxist-oriented Frelimo government in Maputo, Renamo has cut rail lines, sacked villages and destroyed countless schools and clinics since it began intensifying its attacks in 1981. In a particularly vicious assault on the town of Homoine last year...
...Left-wing populism stresses economic resentments. For Jesse Jackson, such sentiments come naturally. He decries the "economic violence" imposed on workers and small farmers by what he considers a corporate plutocracy. Right- wing populism reflects cultural alienation, the sense that liberal elitists have forced their social views on a more traditional majority. Although Pat Robertson's campaign ads brag about his well-established roots ("descendant of two U.S. Presidents"), his success comes from tapping resentments that fed other conservative populist campaigns, including Reagan...
THERE ARE certain subjects about which no modern person can write well. Prominent among these subjects are philosophy, radical left wing politics, and art history...
WHERE INDECIPHERABILITY is one frequently chosen method of self-sabotage, exclamation points are another. This is the method selected by by the neighborhood radical left-wing causes to support republicanism. If I tried consciously to make my own cause less believable to the people from whom I ask support, I couldn't think of any better way than how they...
Members of Israel's national-unity government, a coalition of the center- left Labor Party and right-wing Likud bloc, have begun moderating their positions, partly in anticipation that the Palestinian unrest will be a major issue in national elections scheduled for November. Even Prime Minister Shamir said last week he "would not object to the idea" of negotiating with non- P.L.O.. Palestinian leaders. But he also continues to insist with more fervor than ever that Israel will never give up the West Bank, and never consider altering the settlement policy that has allowed 65,000 Jews...