Word: anti-communist
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...phenomenon: the resurgence of ultraconservative antiCommunism. Hundreds of groups and subgroups-with such names as Project Alert, Americans for Constitutional Action, Survival U.S.A. and Crusade for American ism-have popped up across the U.S., in some cases springing from nothing to several thousand members almost overnight. More than 100 anti-Communist study groups are being conducted in Dallas alone. Because their membership is sometimes secret and usually heavily interchangeable with other groups, no sure estimate of their strength is possible...
...secessionists still stirring trouble in the Congo. But the Soviet Union's Valerian Zorin was anxious to protect one of the worst troublemakers, Red-backed Antoine Gizenga of Eastern province; tossing two rapid-fire vetoes, Russia's Zorin declined to approve any measure not directed exclusively against anti-Communist Moise Tshombe of Katanga. To prevent total deadlock and inaction, Stevenson reluctantly gave U.S. approval to the narrower, Soviet-favored proposal...
Goldwater stressed the folly of giving American financial aid to the U.N. to fight an anti-Communist regime in the Congo. "The idea of the U.N.," he asserted, "is not a practical one--we can see that in the Congo today. Nations are always going to be nationalistic whether they like to admit it or not. If someone steps on your toes, you don't write to New York to ask, 'May I step back...
...smile in the face of the Russian bear, kept calm. For 17 years Finland has managed the most spectacular balancing act in Europe. Perched on Russia's doorstep, Finland has had to permit Soviet meddling in its internal affairs to the point of allowing the ouster of anti-Communist Cabinet ministers; nevertheless, the country has remained strongly independent and has prospered economically while maintaining a vigorous democracy...
...critics, from Washington to such vehemently anti-Communist nations as Nationalist China, fear that in his pursuit of compromise, U Thant may gravely inhibit the U.N.'s role as the "conscience of mankind." They may reckon without U Thant's quiet but nonetheless firm belief that peace cannot be achieved through passive neutralism, which would mean a withdrawal from the battle for peace." Pointedly, he has declared: "Whoever occupies the office of the Secretary-General must be impartial, but not necessarily neutral...