Word: anti-communist
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Traditional government policy is to maintain the political stability of Latin American regimes as long as they are anti-communist and friendly to U.S. interests. The government not only extends political recognition but provides military and police aid. Between the end of World War II and 1961, the military emphasis was on collective hemisphere defense in the Cold War. By 1961, after Castro's takeover in Cuba and the emergence of guerrilla groups, the basis shifted to internal security within the hemisphere. The U.S. began to provide counter-insurgency training for officers in the Canal Zone. Equipment aid shifted from...
Citing reasons why he thought that L. Patrick Gray III would be an excellent director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst said: "He's a real patriot and a dedicated anti-Communist." Moreover, added Kleindienst, "he's loyal to President Nixon...
...energies, and those of Scenarists Joan Silver and James Bridges, seem to have been poured into creating stereotypes with whom every member of the audience could identify, no matter what their politics. There is a bitter, continuously frustrated campaigner against the war (Kathleen Nolan), a vociferous, tirelessly anti-Communist booster of the military effort (Katherine Justice), and a neutral, who nevertheless gets a little queasy when shown some scenes of maimed North Vietnamese children (Kate Jackson). The movie is painstak∎∎ing in its refusal to take any kind of stand at all, other than a rather strong suggestion...
...Modern Man), and he always relished a good argument-particularly an argument against dogmatism or dictatorship. In the mid-1930s, he helped organize the militant left-wing American Workers Party, but also spoke out against Stalinism as well as Fascism. After World War II, he joined in founding the anti-Communist American Committee for Cultural Freedom, but also in denouncing Senator Joseph McCarthy. More conservative in recent years, he has been an outspoken critic of student radicals ("gravediggers of academic freedom") and of any quota system in academic appointments ("a manifestation of racism"). Says he: "I've always been...
Already, there is surprisingly strong feeling among many political and intellectual figures in Saigon that a ceasefire is imminent and that Thieu's position is hopeless. "Thieu is finished," contends an anti-Communist Vietnamese scholar. "He was, perhaps, the man for war. He is not the man for peace. We must have a new man." Agrees Ly Quy Chung, a deputy in the South Vietnamese lower house: "We must prepare for the new political struggle. We must have a new team and not the one that has lost the war, or they will lose again." The battle for political...