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...Nicaraguans gathered at Managua's Augusto César Sandino Airport last week left little doubt about their opinion of the Marxist-led Sandinista government. "Democracy, yes! Communism, no!" they chanted. "With Arturo in the seat there'll be plenty to eat. Arturo is the future." The small but vocal crowd had turned out to welcome Arturo Cruz, 60, a former junta member and Ambassador to Washington, who was back home from self-imposed exile in the U.S. to run as an opposition candidate in the Nicaraguan elections scheduled for Nov. 4. But the jubilation was short-lived...
...would not vote for Jackson for President, but I am glad we have him. The U.S. played a major role in coups in Guatemala and Chile, not to mention other smaller actions in Latin America. I have no love for Communism, but our support of dictators is appalling. Jackson forces us to see with a fresh perspective...
...USED to be that political scientists found it was pretty simple to sketch a diagram of the spectrum of political systems and beliefs. You drew a straight line: to the extreme left was communism, to the extreme right facism. The happy medium, not surprisingly, was Western-style democracy...
...party's collective confusion is on display from the campaign stump to Congress. Mondale preaches compassion, Hart calls for "new ideas." Old liberals like Tip O'Neill support massive jobs bills, while young reformers vote to freeze spending on all domestic programs. Southern Democrats seek to contain Communism in Central America, while Northern Democrats look at El Salvador and see Viet Nam. No center holds. "The party is floundering because it lacks a vision of where it is going," says Duke University Political Scientist James David Barber. "Where there is no vision, the parties perish...
...intense, humorless Sardinian born to an aristocratic family, he rose through party ranks, was elected to parliament in 1968, and took over effective party leadership from the ailing Luigi Longo in 1969. In pursuit of his ultimate goal-inclusion in the government- Berlinguer rejected Soviet Communism as a model and approved Italy's membership in NATO. In the 1976 elections, the P.C.I, gained its greatest popularity, with 34.4% of the vote. But Berlinguer was denied the "historic compromise" of a coalition partnership with the long-dominant Christian Democrats, and his party's vote totals gradually declined...