Word: anti-communist
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Indonesia knows that a pro-Western, anti-Communist federation would put a serious crimp in Sukarno's ambition to absorb oil-rich Brunei and its two neighbors. He also is anxious as usual for an issue to deflect mounting public criticism over Indonesia's growing economic crisis. Fearing that Sukarno is itching to start something, Malaya's Prime Minister Tunku (Prince) Abdul Rahman appealed to London for reinforcements. The British obligingly put 2,000 crack troops on a 72-hour alert to reinforce its Southeast Asia forces, because of "the possibility of outside interference...
...question was how much the junta itself had helped to accent the crisis. In their steadfast enmity toward the leftist but anti-Communist APRA party of Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, the military men had shown a peculiar tolerance for the Communists, who were competing for the same peasant and laborer following. Several Red leaders were released from jail, known Communists were appointed to labor councils. Emboldened by this freedom, the Reds had gone about their violent errands with such a will that the junta could no longer ignore them...
...helicopter has revolutionized the ugly little anti-Communist war in South Viet Nam. Using the whirlybirds for transport, government forces no longer remain immobile in fixed outposts. They now go where the Viet Cong goes...
...rocky island of Tungyin, 50 miles off the coast of Red China, is the headquarters of a little-known military unit called the Anti-Communist National Salvation Army. The secret army, 30,000 strong, is Chiang Kai-shek's instrument for the long-promised return to the mainland. The troops are trained as guerrillas, armed with U.S. weapons, and come largely from the mainland coastal provinces...
...American Veterans Committee, the Unitarian-Universalists, and the State AFLCIO filed around the hotel carrying placards protesting the rally. Violence erupted on the picket line when a Polish refugee tried to burn a Communist flag on the sidewalk, causing a scuffle. The refugee, Joseph Mlot Mroz, president of the Anti-Communist Federation of Polish Freedom Fighters, was arrested on a charge of disturbing the peace...