Word: anti-communist
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...former NATO commander and Reagan's first Secretary of State, Haig may be the most credible of the treaty opponents. Never a darling of the right wing, he skips anti-Communist boiler plate and stresses geopolitical concerns: that eliminating Euromissiles will heighten the Soviets' overwhelming advantage in conventional forces; that denuclearization of Western Europe , could weaken the NATO alliance; that the treaty fails to address the need for cuts in the Soviets' arsenal of ICBMs. In 1981 Haig argued for a deal that would leave each side with a reduced number of missiles. When he lost that argument, he dutifully...
Reagan clearly seems fascinated by the prospect of becoming the great disarmer, which is what gives conservatives the willies. All last week the President sought to soothe their nerves by waving his anti-Communist credentials. Speaking to the Heritage Foundation, he lashed out at the Kremlin's repression and reiterated his support for anti-Soviet freedom fighters around the globe. The Administration released a tough report accusing Moscow of violating the Antiballistic Missile Treaty. In his interview with network anchors, Reagan claimed that "I haven't changed from the time when I made a speech about an 'Evil Empire...
...anti-communist dissident whowants to leave the country, MacFarquhar said. "Iadmire him for trying to put the country in theright direction. We are very keen on having himhere at Harvard," he said
Goldsmith is fiercely anti-Communist, extravagantly so. "Jimmy believes," says an old friend, "that the KGB is using the global media to destabilize public opinion and spread lies." Goldsmith is just as fiercely critical of the business establishment, which he calls corpocracy. Big companies, he says, are in league with big government and big unions to stifle change and progress. "With the return of the Democrats to power over both houses of Congress," he says, "you are once more suffering the outrages of that triangular alliance...
Didion is drawn to explore the back channels of power. Her sources are mainly books, articles and public documents about the connections among anti- Castro Cuban refugees and anti-Communist activists in the U.S. Government. The ties -- clear, confusing and some crazy enough to be true -- are there, as the Iran-contra hearings disclosed. Veracity, rumor, deceit and braggadocio are hard to separate. "To spend time in Miami is to acquire a certain fluency in cognitive dissonance" is Didion's evaluation of her experience. Translated from the Latinate, this means she could not make sense out of the town...