Word: anti-communist
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...first, Duvalier was able to parlay his anti-Communist credentials into sizable aid grants from the U.S. But he squandered much of the funds on grandiose prestige projects like the model city of Duvalierville, now a collection of decaying buildings overgrown by jungle. The U.S. finally cut all but a trickle of aid in the early 1960s. Under Duvalier, Haiti's per capita income of less than $75 remained the hemisphere's lowest, and the country was still racked by disease and hunger...
...hardened almost as soon as the Communists took over that country in 1949. The enmity was only heightened by China's intervention in the Korean War. Congressional leaders-particularly Republicans-constructed a policy of containment through generous military and economic aid to Chiang Kai-shek's anti-Communist regime and security commitments to shield Taiwan and its satellite islands from mainland control. In the 1950s, election campaigns were fought on a lingering charge that...
...Republican with strong anti-Communist credentials, Nixon could afford such moves without undue fear of suffering domestic political damage. But the President's overtures seemed to be having no effect. The elimination of passport restrictions, for example, remained meaningless, since the Chinese refused to grant visas except to a few old friends like Author-Journalist Edgar Snow. "China continues in its determination to cast us in the devil's role," complained Nixon. "Our modest efforts to prove otherwise have not reduced Peking's doctrinaire enmity toward...
...Korean solution": a South Vietnamese government strong enough to fight the North to a standstill, leading not to a formal peace but to a semi-permanent armed truce. In Korea, of course, that was possible because of the presence of U.S. ground forces and the existence of a vigorously anti-Communist population...
...documentary, widely praised by TV critics, thus treated an important, vastly underreported subject with footage that was often fascinating and bound to remain in the viewer's memory. It exposed oversimplified, cold war anti-Communist propaganda films produced by the Pentagon years ago and still being shown. CBS cameras also covered the Army's much-traveled lecturing colonels; their speeches violated service regulations against public statements on the foreign policy aspects of Viet Nam. Other segments depicted a violent Green Beret karate demonstration and children reveling in it, and a group of VIPs-getting four-star treatment...