Word: anti-communist
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...visited Mary Baldwin College, a women's school, where "the students were telephoning their fathers on nearby Air Force and Army bases, asking if they should go home." These undergraduates feared that their particular country would be targeted by the Soviets because Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, a vehement anti-communist spokesman, had once attended an adjacent military academy, Riesman explains...
Such nativism isn't new. The racist Immigration Act of 1924, and the hysterically anti-Communist McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 both embodied the ugliest aspects of some Americans' attitude toward their nation's role as a world refuge. What is new is that, in the midst of the current xenophobia, two legislators are actually trying to provide a balanced, comprehensive and effective law to mitigate nativism by restoring order at America's frontiers...
...suspended Federal Party: "Whatever happens in the Falklands and whatever mistakes the government made are secondary. The fact is that Argentines now have a sense of pride and nationhood as never before." The war was also bringing about a realignment of Argentine foreign policy. Staunchly Roman Catholic, anti-Communist and pro-Western, Argentina has responded to U.S. and Western European support for Britain in the Falklands battle by threatening to turn to the Soviet Union for military aid. Last week Argentina announced that it was closing its consulate in West Berlin and considering opening new embassies in Mozambique and Angola...
...alarming corollary of anti-U.S. feeling is a possible swing by Argentina to the Soviet bloc for future aid, as absurd as that seems for a staunchly anti-Communist regime. After a 30-minute meeting with President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri last week, Soviet Ambassador Sergei Striganov expressed Moscow's "sympathy with the Argentine people's hard fight against British imperialism." Galtieri later said that he would accept "any hand that is offered" to aid his country. It was unclear just what the Soviets, who bought 75% of Argentina's grain exports last year, were prepared...
Some of the anti-Soviet hard-liners within the Administration fear that the rupture of relations with Argentina may drive it into an alignment with Moscow. But most experts consider this unlikely, even if the regime of General Leopoldo Galtieri is overthrown. Capitalist and predominantly Roman Catholic, Argentina is not a likely place for a Marxist revolution, especially after years of violent government repression of leftists. Any regime that replaces Galtieri will almost certainly also be controlled by the anti-Communist military...