Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unofficial reports by a television station, the U.S. Embassy and the leftist Democratic Convergence party indicated Arena had defeated the incumbent Christian Democrats...
...SALVADOR, El Salvador--The rightist Republican Nationalist Alliance yesterday claimed victory over the governing centrists in a presidential vote leftist rebels tried to thwart with attacks launched across the country...
...unhelpful as these strangers. Her daughter Valerie (Heather Tobias, in the movie's only overwrought, misjudged performance) can buy everything but common sense and fills life's emptiness with a riot of ugly possessions. Her son Cyril (Philip Davis) has gone the opposite route. He is a leftover leftist who cannot abandon the habit of Marxist analysis but is unable to believe any longer in its power to effect change...
Facing the almost certain victory of the right-wing, death squad-linked ARENA party in this month's presidential elections, the Salvadoran leftist guerrillas have offered to end the war. In return they have requested a six-month delay in the elections, allowing them time to organize for and participate in the presidential race. Despite anticipated outrage from the right, the centrist President Duarte has offered a compromise six-week extension...
...years, the two students said, leftist rebels have demonstrated against President Jose Napoleon Duarte and his Christian Democratic government. But the pair said violence has worsened, blaming part of the cause of U.S. involvement, the largest sustained American military expenditure since Vietnam...