Word: anti-communist
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...children, Hunt never felt a close connection with the oil baron, who was an emotionally distant and demanding lothario. However, it was her father who first introduced her to politics. H.L. Hunt espoused a doctrine of rabid anti-communism. He penned a utopian novel in which wealth dictated voting privileges, and he pressed his daughters into the service of his anti-communist crusade. “Making speeches with my father was the closest thing to a meaningful relationship we ever had,” the younger Hunt writes...
...teenager, Hunt adopted her father’s zealous anti-communist politics and her mother’s fervent brand of evangelical Christianity. She attended revivals and tried to convert strangers at beaches. Later in life, Hunt would redirect that fervor into both liberal philanthropic projects and politics...
...Korea. There was military conscription. Everyone valued his student deferment, except for those lucky enough to be accepted into one of the three Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs that flourished on the campus. But despite Harvard’s vigorous ROTC program, the powerful anti-communist forces that were gaining increasing influence in American life were looking on the University with suspicion. Something of a watershed was reached when a student organization invited Howard Fast, a prolific author and a well-known American communist, to speak at one of its periodic forums. Fast was to debate Professor Edwin...
...Chanh's adopted country, the U.S., has so far declined to comment. Though he's lived in California since 1982, he's not a U.S. citizen and has no official protection. And while Washington once tacitly supported anti-Communist outfits like Free Vietnam, the group's past acts of sabotage became an embarrassment in the post-9/11 era. Chanh left the movement last year to head the United States International Mission, a nonprofit organization that helps victims of human trafficking. But if South Korea decides to extradite him, his past may land him in a Vietnamese jail...
...different. In 1976, a coup d’état introduced military dictatorship in Argentina for the sixth time in 43 years. After the death of charismatic President Perón two years before, the constitutional government had been walking on eggshells; despite not being president, the anti-communist extremist Jose López Rega controlled the administration. In city streets, he led a dirty war with socialist organizations. While his factions killed one person every 19 hours in 1975, cadres from the opposing side resorted to bombs and kidnappings. Society and foreign embassies knew the coup was coming...