Word: anti-communist
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Hard-core conservatives misconstrue the mission of Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) as an anti-Communist "war of liberation." Savimbi's supporters completely overlook the fact that the leader of UNITA has never professed an ideological preference for "democracy"; in fact, he has freely publicized his own preference for Stalinist-Maoist forms of totalitarianism. Savimbi is willing to ingratiate himself with whomever is stupid enough to help him install his own regime--and it appears that American interventionists have been duped by his disingenuous propaganda...
...Angola (MPLA)--a Marxist group supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union--prevailed in 1976, but Savimbi's group, a Chinese proxy, failed to secure itself a role in the new government. This despite the Ford Administration's last-ditch commitment of $32 million in CIA aid to another "anti-communist" faction, the now-defunct National Front for the Liberation of Angola...
Despite the President's rhetoric, many Administration officials realize that a blanket pledge to aid anti-Communist insurgencies everywhere entails unacceptable risks. Angola is a case in point. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker revealed to a congressional committee last week that the U.S. had set "the process in motion" to provide some $15 million in covert funds to the rebels in Angola. The State Department hopes that the covert aid will forestall a conservative effort in Congress to mandate above-board funding...
...have suffered continual ups and downs. In 1979, after the Charlotte Observer charged that money ostensibly raised for overseas work was diverted to expenses at home, the FCC held preliminary hearings on stripping Bakker's license to a TV station in Canton, Ohio, then let him sell it to Anti-Communist Crusader Billy James Hargis. Last month the Observer asserted that, during the FCC deliberations, former PTL executives had testified the Bakkers used donations to buy a sports car, a houseboat, a mink coat and other personal perks. Seething, Bakker produced documents to rebut the accusations and called them...
Even more troubling for true believers is the movement's failure to bring * ideological purity to Government. Conservatives reg- ularly rail against U.S. foreign policy for lacking sufficient anti-Communist emphasis, and while the conservative social agenda receives lip-service support from the Administration, few proponents of voluntary school prayer and a ban on abortions think those goals are much closer to reality now than...