Word: anticommunist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LECH WALESA Anticommunist hero turned President learns democracy has a dark side: losing...
...view resulted largely from Japanese protectionism, they would not push any trade dispute to the breaking point. In particular, they believed the U.S. must always keep its markets open, whatever its trading partners did--partly out of free-trade principle, partly as a way to reward anticommunist allies. Japan, for its part, grew expert at offering just enough--for example, "voluntary" quotas on auto exports in the early 1980s--to keep the U.S. grumpily mollified, while backing Washington all the way in world diplomacy...
...world affairs, submitting, as a freshman Representative in 1943, the resolution that ultimately led to the creation of the United Nations; he initiated the scholars' exchange program two years later when he reached the Senate. Independent by nature, he cast the lone vote against funding Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist investigation in 1954 and traded blows on foreign policy with every President from Truman to Nixon, though he reserved his greatest criticism for Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War. The televised hearings he led in 1966 and 1967 as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee helped turn popular opinion...
...incontrovertible. But the allegation that physicists who are still idols in the world scientific community cooperated with the espionage network? "Gumshoe braggadocio," fumes Richard Rhodes, author of a 1986 Pulitzer- prizewinning book on the making of the A-bomb. Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and a fervent anticommunist, scoffs at the idea that Fermi would ever have cooperated with the Soviets, because Fermi "clearly opposed the Stalinist nightmare...
...cover stories on Nixon have reflected both the highs and the lows of his amazing political career. Early on, Nixon caught the eye of TIME's editors as a zealously anticommunist Republican Congressman with a promising future. In August 1952 he first appeared on our cover as the G.O.P. candidate for Vice President. We described him then as a "good-looking, dark-haired young man" who "seems to have everything...