Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...declaration included a statement of support for Cristiani's seven-month- old government and a condemnation of the recent offensive launched by its leftist opponents, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. Ortega's signature was particularly critical, since he has been accused of arming the F.M.L.N. In exchange, Ortega secured a clause urging the U.S. to halt its support of the Nicaraguan contras and to turn over all money earmarked for them to an international commission...
Coming five days into a fierce offensive by leftist Salvadoran rebels which has reached the wealthiest areas of San Salvador, public sentiment had begun to swing to the rightist government under Alfredo Cristiani. Many saw the offensive, which killed hundreds of civilians and rebels, as a last-ditch effort to provoke outrages by a government closely identified in the past with the severest death squads in Latin America...
...People in the U.S. embassy always disagreed with their analyses and the results of their analyses, calling them leftist or marxist," he says. "The figures that they would use on the number of people actually killed by the military or by death squads were always higher than those reported by the United States military and the United States embassy...
...bomb included a light-sensitive device that triggered the explosion precisely as Herrhausen's limousine passed by. Under the box was a piece of paper with the all too familiar star-shaped symbol superimposed on a drawing of a Kalashnikov rifle: the trademark of West Germany's ultra-leftist urban terrorists, the Red Army Faction...
Even so, neither president sought to gloss over differences on two topics, the Soviets' call for cuts in naval forces and American anger at the continued flow of Soviet weapons to leftist rebels in El Salvador...