Word: anticommunist
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...Democratic primary-with 200 ballots that materialized in the week following the election. Though Dugger struggles to be matter of fact about Johnson's rise, outrage keeps seeping through. He cannot forgive L.B.J. for abandoning his early New Deal progressivism, turning against organized labor and becoming a strident antiCommunist...
...impressive figure standing ramrod straight at 6 ft. 2 in., Galtieri enjoys a reputation in Washington as tough and shrewd. He is considered a potentially warm ally of the U.S., where he studied army engineering in 1960-61. Despite his credentials as a political hard-liner and staunch antiCommunist, Galtieri was not directly identified with the political oppression that engulfed the country after the over throw of Isabelita Perón in 1976, resulting in the disappearance of more than 6,000 opponents of the regime...
Lech Walesa is a poor choice for your Man of the Year. He is not an antiCommunist. He is only protesting against mismanagement and mistreatment by overlords-but not because they are Communist overlords...
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...