Word: anti-communist
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...politics, not surprisingly, are fervently anti-Communist: between his retirement from the Marines in 1984 and his move to Hollywood a year later, he edited Soldier of Fortune magazine and unofficially trained Nicaraguan contras. Good-humored political arguments raged between Dye and Stone, who called each other "John Wayne" and "the Bolshevik." Dye is not concerned that many, including Stone, see Platoon as an antiwar film: "My hope is that it will encourage America not to waste its soldiers' lives in wars that it is not willing or able to win." That theme is further explored...
...earned him the nickname Sambo. "In his imagination he was going to be Rambo, but it backfired in his face," says Thomas Posey, director of Civilian Materiel Assistance (C.M.A.), an Alabama-based paramilitary group that expelled Hall 15 months ago after he pressed the group to broaden its anti-Communist activities. Adds a U.S. official: "Hall really thought he could just walk into the bush and blast Commies...
Turner believes that increased interactionbetween nations would help to relieveinternational tension. "When you don't have anysocial contact, you become distrustful," he said,adding that the anti-communist hearings led bySen. Joseph McCarthy influenced him during hisearly childhood...
...contras have also received funds from anti-Communist groups like the Council for World Freedom, headed by retired Army Major General John Singlaub. Singlaub, who has denied any involvement with the C-123K flight, met earlier this year with General Juan Rafael Bustillo, the Salvadoran air force chief who reportedly issued ID cards to U.S. gunrunners that gave them access to the Ilopango air base...
Still, the staunch anti-Communist side of Ronald Reagan would have little trouble suppressing that bit of sentiment were it not coupled with a new perception of what the Soviet Union is all about. As he has grown in office, Reagan has come to view the Russians no longer as cardboard-cutout Communists but as human beings in a multidimensional society, with a history that goes back beyond the 1917 Revolution. He has learned to appreciate why the Russian people, as opposed to their Soviet rulers, are so sensitive to charges of sociopathic behavior, why their concept of homeland...