Word: anti-communist
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Washington officials responded to the news of Stroessner's political demise with little optimism. Despite some appealing rhetoric, few believe Rodriguez will institute democratic reform. "Most likely, it's going to be more of the same," said a senior military analyst. The anti-Communist Stroessner has long been one of Washington's staunchest backers. But his dismal record on human rights compelled successive U.S. Administrations to denounce Stroessner as a dictator...
Some speculate that Alvarez, a staunch anti-Communist, was targeted for his role in turning sections of Honduras into bases for the U.S. military and the U.S.-backed contras, who have been fighting to topple the Sandinista regime next door in Nicaragua. Cinchoneros leaders indicated they were avenging Alvarez's brutal attempt to crush their movement in the early 1980s, as well as the former general's part in the disappearance of 120 alleged subversives. Whatever the motive, Hondurans fear that growing political violence could turn their once placid nation into the Lebanon of Latin America...
Also on that board was Frederic Malek, the deputy chairman of the Bush campaign who resigned after reporters learned that under President Nixon in 1971 he targeted Jews in the Bureau of Labor Statistics for investigation. Another board member, Lev Dobrianski, founded the World Anti-Communist League, a group later described by the head of its British chapter as a "collection of Nazis, fascists, [and] anti-Semites...
CRITICS have suggested that Derwinski is so staunchly anti-communist that he willingly ignores anti-Semitic and fascist, as well as racist, tendencies in other anti-communists. Such a practice, if continued in the Veterans Affairs Department, could leave World War II veterans wondering whose side he really takes...
...these veterans, along with the rest of America, will have to wonder what Bush was thinking when he made the appointment. Is he, too, so anti-communist that he is willing to brush over anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi pasts? Or does he condone such thinking in his Administration as long as it remains buried in the obscure new Department of Veterans Affairs, safely out of public view...