Word: anti-communist
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Moreover, some sophisticated Soviet observers reason that now is the time to make a deal because Reagan is in a unique position to achieve and then sell an arms-control agreement. His credentials as an arch anti-Communist would enable him to weather criticism from the right about any kind of deal. In addition, his immense popularity will help him persuade the American public to embrace any agreement he negotiates...
...troops into Afghanistan to install a more compliant puppet regime in the capital of Kabul, fighting throughout the country, though still indecisive, has grown more intense than ever. A few months ago, heavy Soviet offenses had pushed the resistance to the brink of collapse. Recently, however, the anti-Communist mujahedin rebels have struck back with some of their most punishing assaults...
...that Rau "will need your solidarity and self-discipline to win." The delegates' tepid response seemed emblematic of the near-total exclusion of Schmidt's moderate, pragmatic faction from the party leadership since he ) resigned as the Social Democratic vice chairman in 1983. Since then, Schmidt's pro-NATO, anti-Communist views have been eclipsed by party chairman and ex- Chancellor Willy Brandt's policies, which are based on the view that the Soviet Union poses no military threat to Western Europe. If there is a threat of war in Europe, in Brandt's opinion, it stems from the presence...
...enemies he has been almost literally the devil's advocate, the ruthless attorney who made his name as the whispering aide to Senator Joe McCarthy during the anti-Communist witch-hunts of the 1950s. To his friends and clients, including politicians, mobsters and plutocrats of every description, he is the ultimate courtroom fighter...
...fact, the idealistic approach and the security approach often converge. When a regime becomes so unpopular that it no longer has the support of its own people, it has obviously lost its usefulness as an anti-Communist force, however solid its anti-Communist convictions. The Reagan Administration first learned that lesson in El Salvador when it realized that a regime dominated by the loudest and fiercest anti-Communists--but hated for its death squads and reactionary economic policies--was not America's best bet. The U.S. rightly decided to back instead a left-of-center politician, Jose Napoleon Duarte...