Word: anticommunist
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...right-wing bias and "McCarthyism," the I.R.D. has some leaders with unexpectedly left-wing backgrounds. Founder Jessup joined the early Berkeley free-speech movement, and later the Peace Corps as well as black-voter-registration and labor-organizing campaigns. But even in his radical student days he was strongly antiCommunist. In 1980 he and his wife, in what became known as the Jessup Report, totaled up $442,000 in Methodist moneys aiding groups he judged to be Marxist or totalitarian, and sent the list to the denomination's financial overseers...
...Soviet leadership last week had only a single opinion to offer on Pope John Paul II. The official TASS news agency condemned the Pope for his "conservative and rigid" attitude toward the Soviet bloc. TASS also denounced the Vatican for using the "cover of religion" to engage in "antiCommunist propaganda on a broad scale." The Vatican said it had "no comment or reply" to that sound of one bell ringing in the Kremlin...
...anyone seemed capable of resolving the crisis, it was Fanfani. Four times Prime Minister in the 1950s and early '60s, the Tuscany-born Fanfani was known both as il Padrino (the Godfather) and, because of his ability to bounce back from political adversity, the Tuscan Pony. Despite his antiCommunist, anti-abortion stands, he gained a reputation as a pragmatist, forming the country's first left-of-center coalition with the Socialists in 1962. His ability to compromise was quickly put to use last week to mollify the present-day Socialists under Bettino Craxi...
...Falklands are of purely symbolic importance to the contenders. Control of southern Lebanon is of vital practical advantage to each side. Between the British and the Argentines there was a history of compatibility; between the Israelis and the P.L.O., a history of hatred. Argentina is conservative and antiCommunist; the P.L.O. radical and Communist supported. In the Falklands, the U.S. was watching friend fight friend; in Lebanon, an ally was going up against an enemy that has little affection for the U.S. And there were the physical differences of climate; of sea battles vs. land operations; of the attitudes...
Kirkpatrick, who wrote her Ph.D. dissertation at Columbia University on Argentina during the Peron years, considers herself the Administration's premier expert on Latin America. Conservative and staunchly antiCommunist, she repaired the U.S.'s ties with Buenos Aires last year and fervently hoped to build a strategic barricade against leftist infiltration in the Western Hemisphere by forging closer links with authoritarian regimes like the military junta in Argentina. Though Haig shares Kirkpatrick's fears about Communist advances in Latin America, he is a political pragmatist who is generally more flexible on foreign policy issues. Having been Supreme...