Word: anti-communist
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...Atlanta, Kathryn McDonald stoically faced TV cameras to declare that her husband Lawrence, a staunchly conservative Democratic Congressman and national chairman of the ultraright John Birch Society, had been the victim of "an act of deliberate assassination." She charged that it was no accident that "the leading anti-Communist in the American Government" had been on a plane that was "forced into Soviet territory" and shot down. She linked her husband's "murder" with the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II, blaming both on the Soviets...
...Reagan Administration's willingness to send men and matériel around the world is hardly surprising. It is consistent with the President's starkly anti-Communist world view. And while his policy pronouncements sometimes seem awkward or belligerent, the President's deployments have not been reckless. Direct confrontation with the Soviets has been avoided, and U.S. casualties (six killed in Lebanon, one in El Salvador) have been...
...spoke out. Although the Reagan Administration has long given tacit support to the Chilean regime for its anti-Communist stance, some U.S. officials now fear that Pinochet's failure to promote democracy could plunge the country into civil war. The State Department specifically condemned the arrest of three prominent opposition leaders as "a regrettable manifestation of the serious tensions and divisions" in Chile, and called for "moderation and dialogue" leading to the restoration of democracy...
Above all, the Christian Democrats erred in renouncing their time-honored role as the bulwark against a Communist advance. During the campaign, De Mita declared that the party no longer had any ideological objection to the Communists as a democratic alternative. Berlinguer, he noted, had broken with Moscow over Poland and accepted Italy's membership in NATO. The Communists, moreover, were widely perceived to be entering a period of gradual decline. With a minimized menace on the left, anti-Communist voters who had once turned to the Christian Democrats felt free to scatter their votes to other parties...
...America and Poland." But, unfortunately, the last word went to Fuentes, who asked why, paradoxically, the United States did not feel the same towards its southern neighbors as it does towards Poland: "Are we to be considered your true friends, only if we are ruled by right-wing, anti-Communist despotism's?... How can we live and grow together on the basis of such hypocrisy?" By placing two self-determination crusades under the same spotlight--one against the Soviet Union, the other against the United States--Harvard helped to demonstrate that the different causes are essentially the same...