Word: anti-communist
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...counter Honasan's publicity blitz, General Fidel Ramos, the armed forces Chief of Staff, began one of his own. Ramos charged that the colonel, despite his fierce anti-Communist stance, had actually shirked duty in N.P.A.-infested combat zones. He said Honasan did not have enough supplies and manpower to launch another serious attack. But even Ramos was forced to admit that Honasan's popular appeal "is a long-range time bomb planted in the heart of the military...
...government has paid a heavy price for its role in supporting Afghanistan's anti-Communist guerrillas. In recent months, Pakistani cities have been rocked by terrorist bomb attacks that authorities blame on Khad, the Afghan secret police. The worst occurrence left 75 dead and 300 injured in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, and led to demonstrations for greater security...
North literally became a folk hero from his testimony, representing the good, bad and ugly strains of the frontier mentality. His lawlessness, his belief in following superiors, his anti-communist zealotry combined his constant incantation of patriotism was bound to bring the bigots to his side. What is distressing is that North never repudiated that segment of his support. Brendan Sullivan was equally quiet. One can only be glad that the civil rights movement happened, enabling Louis Stokes, son of a Black cleaning lady, to sit as a United States Representative at one of the country's most important public...
Kattke, 38, a self-described anti-Communist and American patriot, had befriended a band of Grenadian exiles plotting to overthrow the leftist regime of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. Seeking help in planning a coup, Kattke called on retired Army Colonel George Morton, an employee of the Vinnell Corp. in Washington, which for years has supplied military special training to Saudi Arabia. According to Kattke, Morton turned him over to Gadd, who was then working for Vinnell. But Kattke's coup plans were aborted when the Prime Minister was killed by his rivals in the government. When North began planning...
Though the Salesians deny it, critics say Dom Miguel meddled in tribal politics to advance pro-mission Indians, threatened excommunication for those who disobeyed and even controlled access to the military planes that until lately provided the only transportation in and out of the area. A fervent anti-Communist and admirer of the military, Dom Miguel belongs to the minority of Brazil's bishops who oppose left-wing liberation theology, which follows Marxist-style analysis of social oppression...