Word: anti-communist
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...used the Alabama Air National Guard surreptitiously in the early 1960s to train Cuban exiles as pilots for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. Powell, also 36, had piloted helicopters in Viet Nam, surviving three crashes caused by enemy fire. Parker belonged to a little-known anti-Communist organization in Alabama called the Civilian Military Assistants group (CMA). Powell was a member of a Memphis offshoot known as Civilian Refugee Military Assistants...
...origin of CMA was explained by Tom Posey, 38, a balding former Marine who is one of its founders. He said that he and four other veterans began meeting in Huntsville restaurants in July of last year, "just shooting the bull about what we could do to help" the anti-Communist forces in Central America. "At first we didn't know there was even anything going on in Nicaragua. We thought the contras were Communists...
Chebrikov: It seems that another one of our operatives, an alert alumnus of that famous school, whose name I cannot divulge, tried to whip up a little more anti-Communist feeling. He wrote a letter to Bok, very cleverly, criticizing the fact that Harvard had on its Faculty an avowed communist that despicable revanchist, Kautskian John Womack, who has brown-nosed his way to the head of the History Department there...
What Washington wanted, for one thing, was time to fashion a concerted NATO response that will please Warsaw while satisfying anti-Communist Polish Americans. A White House official confided that President Reagan's decision "will be guided by what's good for the Polish people, what Polish Americans want and, most of all, by the wishes of the Catholic Church." Pope John Paul II has long made it plain that he would like to see an end to sanctions against his country, among them Washington's veto of Polish membership in the International Monetary Fund, as well...
Cruz had apparently hoped that by returning home to challenge Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra for the presidency, he might be able to pressure the Sandinistas into making concessions, such as a general amnesty and opening talks with U.S.-backed anti-Communist contra guerrillas. But that tactic only drew scorn from the Managua regime. The Sandinista newspaper, Barricada, charged that Cruz had presented his candidacy "like an intermediary of the mercenaries, financed by President Reagan and the CIA." Said Sandinista Directorate Member Bayardo Arce: "Why should we talk to the clowns when we can talk to the circus owners...