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Arms sales can saddle a supplier with embarrassing clients. The U.S. has reinforced a reputation in parts of the Third World as an ally of rightist repression by proffering weaponry to Guatemala and El Salvador. Moreover, all the advance guarantees in the world cannot ensure a seller's control over the way its weapons are used. When the Israelis bombed civilian areas of Beirut with American-made jets, in evident violation of an agreement that the planes were to be used for defensive purposes only, the U.S. had to share the blame but had none of the responsibility. Vigorous export...
...1970s, fundamentalist Christians began using "secular humanism" as a term of opprobrium for nonreligious education. It has grown into a New Rightist code word for the precepts and practices of almost anyone this side of Communism who disagrees with them, including liberals, feminists, atheists, civil libertarians, internationalists...
...would prohibit the Justice Department from pursuing any school desegregation case that might result in court-ordered busing. All of Helms' proposals may be overshadowed by more politic New Rightist initiatives, but win or lose, Helms will be point man in the Senate for some of that chamber's most contentious struggles in years...
Burdened with the highest inflation rate in the European Community and a slumping currency, the four-year-old center-rightist government of Prime Minister George Rallis is coming under a withering campaign assault from left-wing Socialist Opposition Leader Andreas Papandreou. The onetime University of California economics professor, now head of Greece's far-left Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement, or PASOK, blames his country's misfortunes on everything from membership in the European Community to its return last year to full military participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...Guatemalan President Fernando Romeo Lucas García, the arrests were timely and convenient. Father Rother's murder, widely believed to be the work of a pro-government rightist hit squad, had been a major embarrassment for Lucas Garcia's regime. The killing occurred just as the Reagan Administration was considering a resumption of the military aid that was cut off during the Carter years because of Guatemala's deplorable human rights record. The prompt arrests, however, seemed to vindicate the government's system of justice and disprove charges that its security forces may have been...