Word: anti-communist
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...between Angola and Viet Nam is alarmist and simplistic. For one thing, or so the Administration argues, the levels of aid differ enormously. In 1954, the year the French pulled out of Indochina, for example, the Eisenhower Administration asked Congress for $500 million to aid the region's anti-Communist fighting forces. Ford and Kissinger have assured Congress that the U.S. will not send advisers or troops to Angola, and Washington's goal has been not to win a war but to provide the anti-Soviet factions with only enough help to fight the M.P.L.A. to a standstill...
...FORD administration disclosed last week that it has promised up to $50 million to FNLA and UNITA, the "anti-communist" coalition in Angola. The announcement only made official what's been going on for over a year: the United States is interfering once again in a Third World country's struggle for self-determination, ignoring the lessons of Vietnam. In support of this aid, Kissinger and the State Department have waged a propaganda campaign in the press and in the U.N., justifying Western involvement in Angola as a necessary balance to Soviet aid to the MPLA...
...junta thinks the U.S. should be grateful for the replacement of Allende by an anti-Communist regime and cannot understand why U.S. Senators, journalists, et al. harp on "human rights." Said Pinochet: "We are better friends to the United States than the United States...
WHILE FRANCO'S SPAIN has been well rewarded for its staunch anti-Communist stand, more complex U.S. foreign policy considerations have recently come into play. Now that Portugal has shifted to the left, Spain is an important shuttle stopover for troops that might be sent to the Middle East, and it probably plays some role in Kissinger's overall Mid-East plans...
...somewhat particularistic and historically insignificant questions. But if these specific cases can shed light on the entire McCarthy period, if the Freedom of Information Act can help explain the FBI's method of investigation in two cases which contributed so much to the creation of a national anti-communist hysteria, then clearly Weinstein's research and that of Hiss and the Meeropols will not simply serve to satisfy a historical curiosity. The means by which the investigative arm of the Justice Department obtained information during this period, certainly one of the darkest in American history, the pressures--personal or political...