Word: anti-communist
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...objective, then, is to prohibit alliance of anti-communist and anti-Somoza forces that could rob Nicaraguans of what may be the most significant opportunity for social advancement in their history. The FSLN has shown clearly that the armed struggle will continue if Somoza is merely replaced by a military junta, or if any sort of political arrangement is worked out with opponents of the regime which does not include the Sandinista representatives of the mass of dispossessed Nicaraguans...
...Barre made his final trip to Moscow, where he was snubbed by Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and was refused the heavy weapons he sought. Barre then visited Saudi Arabia, whose leaders had been trying to woo him away from Moscow for at least three years as part of their anti-Communist strategy to reinforce moderate regimes along the Red Sea and on the Horn of Africa. Barre came away from Jeddah with a reported promise of $300 million; in return, he presumably promised the Saudis that he would get rid of the Russians in his own good time...
...World War II he found work as a war correspondent. By the end of the war he had embraced the Communist Party as a major force fighting for man's freedom, and by the end of the decade he had been tried in the fire of the nation's anti-communist paranoia. Brought before the House Committee on Un-American activities, Fast refused to release a list of contributors to the Spanish Refugee Appeal, a group providing medical help to the Spanish Republican forces opposing Franco's fascist movement. This refusal earned Fast, a director of the organization, a three...
...shek when he fled the mainland in 1949 has become a diplomatic Ishmael. Since 1971, when Taiwan was expelled from the U.N. to make room for Peking, a total of 39 countries have severed relations with Taipei. Today only 23 nations maintain diplomatic relations, and the U.S. and staunchly anti-Communist Saudi Arabia are the only heavyweights among them...
...most of them for their human rights abuses. He wants to ban the sale of conventional arms to a country if the purchase would mean introducing new technology into a region, yet is willing to sell the F-15 fighter jet to Saudi Arabia. He wants to soften the anti-Communist fervor in the U.S., yet he sharply and steadily criticizes the Soviets where they are most vulnerable...