Word: anticommunist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Giuseppe Pella, 79, Italian economist who rose from sharecropper's son to the premiership, and who helped guide his country's economic policy for nearly three decades; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Rome. Resolutely antiCommunist, Pella served as Premier during a critical five-month period in 1953-54 when a border dispute with Yugoslavia over Trieste prompted him to make Italy's only postwar threat to use military force. As Foreign Minister in 1960, he once had a conversation with Nikita Khrushchev in which he rebuffed the Soviet Premier's contentions with a curt "Sorry...
...economic aid was contingent on the rebuilding of the military, and direct military aid during that period came to $56.6 million. Even more important, between 1950 and 1975 nearly 4000 Bolivian military personnel were trained in Panama and the United States. The ideological emphasis of this training was rabidly anticommunist, and the predominant message was that only the military could "save" the country from internal threats to political stability. Young officers were taught to see politically active workers and campesinos as insurgent enemies...
That first issue was typical of all that followed. There was an article called "How to Keep Young Mentally," another titled "Watch Your Dog and Be Wise," and a third on "The Firefly's Light." The magazine tended to be conservative, Republican and antiCommunist, as well as upbeat, inspiring and often simplistic...
...April 6 Movement is the most visible, and most violence-prone, member of a new constellation of radical opposition groups that is sometimes called the Third Force, because it is both anti-Marcos and antiCommunist. The Third Force is composed mainly of middle-class Filipinos, many of them devout Catholics, who believe that the violent overthrow of Marcos' eight-year-old martial law regime is morally justified. Their reasoning: corruption and rigged elections have made peaceful opposition futile...
...allowing them to ship arms across his territory and establish training camps along his border. The Sandinistas even set up their government in exile in San José. That role apparently caused some frictions with Washington at the time, but the Carazo government remains strongly pro-U.S. and antiCommunist. Says former Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio Segreda confidently: "If the extreme left takes power in El Salvador, the leftists rest-of but not Central Costa America Rica." will go to Perhaps so. If it came to that, however, it would be small consolation to admire one shining pearl...