Word: anti-communist
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...eager to retain an anti-Communist ally in Central America, is committed to the Mejía Víctores regime despite its troubles. During a visit to Guatemala City last July, Treasury Secretary James Baker reaffirmed that support and praised the country's "progress toward democracy." Congress has yet to be convinced, however. While it authorized $45.5 million in economic aid last month, it has made a resumption of military assistance contingent on the holding of the November elections and on an acceptable human rights record...
...macho magazine for adventurers (armchair and otherwise). The Colonel is Robert K. Brown, 52, a.k.a. "Uncle Bob," the onetime Green Beret who started the magazine in 1975 and owns it lock, stock and carbine barrel. Soldier of Fortune is a direct reflection of its creator: blunt, individualistic, muscularly anti-Communist. As Brown celebrates Soldier of Fortune's tenth anniversary this month, he makes no apology for the combative style--either his or the magazine's. Since its founding as a quarterly with a print run of 8,500, Soldier of Fortune, based in Boulder, has grown into a glossy monthly...
Often, however, Seagrave's thesis tyrannizes his judgment, and his narrative tapestry reveals too insistent a design. Chiang's anti-Communist policy was in large part an act of self-defense. Had Mao's forces won in the '30s, Chiang and his colleagues would surely have been executed. Estimates of those killed in the famine vary widely, Seagrave acknowledges, but Chiang's pro-Communist antagonist Edgar Snow places it at a million, so a million it is. Seagrave's enemies' enemies are invariably his friends: thus Ching-ling, the family's black sheep, is portrayed as a "transcendent beauty...
...most significant response was Washington's. Until recently, the Reagan Administration had justified its conciliatory policy toward Pretoria in geopolitical terms: the strategic importance of the sealanes around the Cape of Good Hope and of South Africa as a producer of precious metals and an anti-Communist bastion. Last week's statements from Washington not only omitted all mention of such considerations, but were delivered in a tougher tone than in the past. Secretary of State George Shultz described apartheid as "an affront to everything we believe in" and viewed South Africa's present policies as doomed. "The only question...
...beginning of the Reagan Administration, Negroponte snagged what seemed to be a plum assignment in Honduras. As the base for U.S.-backed contra rebels fighting the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua, Honduras was vital to Washington's anti-communist policies in Central America. But if Negroponte and his wife hadn't ended up adopting five Honduran children, he would probably just as soon have forgotten his tenure there. The posting proved to be the black mark in his career. He was accused of turning a blind eye to human-rights abuses by the Honduran government; he says he saw no evidence...