Word: anticommunist
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...publishing house after the authorities imposed martial law. For years, he made ends meet by fixing cranes and cleaning industrial chimneys. He formally entered politics in 1991, joining a variety of short-lived post-Solidarity parties before co-founding Civic Platform. Once a staunch anticommunist, he has recently cultivated an image as a "moderate, liberal" politician with solid family values. Unlike Kaczynski, he eschews heated anticommunist rhetoric, promising instead to restore "dignity, honor and unselfishness" to Polish political life. And he has thrown himself into the campaign with a vengeance, stumping through the August holidays and dotting the countryside with...
...more reason why police files should be opened to public scrutiny. "People should pay for what they did," says sociologist Staniszkis. Meanwhile, Niezabitowska is still trying to clear her name. Since hearing the charges, she has begun work on a memoir of her life as an anticommunist activist in the 1980s. "The history of our nation will not be written by the secret police. I will not allow it!" she declares. "I am not a collaborator," she then adds quietly. "I am a freedom fighter...
DIED. BILLY JAMES HARGIS, 79, anticommunist "bawl and jump" televangelist; in Tulsa, Okla. He first won attention in 1953 when he released 100,000 balloons with biblical quotations into the Soviet Union, and at his peak he was carried on more than 500 radio and 250 TV stations. But his popularity faltered in the 1970s after his organization, Christian Crusade, was beset by a series of troubles, culminating in allegations--which he denied and which were not proved--that he had been sexually involved with students of both sexes...
...Jong Il seems to be pushing for the unification of North and South Korea while lobbying against America's influence. Kim has been increasingly successful in strengthening his position in Asia and the world, as you correctly reported. South Korea's conservative opposition Grand National Party (GNP), once staunchly anticommunist, has changed. Many of the older generation of politicians were expelled, and its leaders are insisting that the GNP should not disturb inter-Korea projects, as the party once did. Has the North been trying to infiltrate the party? The GNP might be the last remaining obstacle...
...father and son related. "[Richard] was a dissident, a genuine dissident within the Department of State. He was not of the manor or the manner born. But he had the style and the capacity to become a foreign service officer anyway. He left because he was an insufficiently doctrinaire anticommunist." In Winer's rendering of Richard Kerry's career, the lessons for his son are clear and noble: "'Don't be afraid to take a dissident position. Realize that people can rebuild after disaster--that's what they saw in Europe after World War II. And respect what other people...