Word: anticommunist
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...Third World, socalled, is a place of vast variety. Originally, and rather vaguely, it meant the countries that were not Communist or clearly antiCommunist, which were neutralist in foreign policy, with a general implication that they were also underdeveloped economically and usually not of the white race. A later euphemism was the L.D.C.s-the less developed countries. (A grammatical purist might object that all of the countries in the world except Abu Dhabi, which has the highest real income per capita, are by definition L.D.C.s.) Now, as the number of countries on earth has kept increasing and as the disparities...
After the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War of 1967, however, and the Khartoum conference that voted continuing Arab support for Egypt and other confrontation countries, Faisal's role changed. As anti-Zionist as he was antiCommunist, the King lavishly subsidized Arab governments battling Israel. He grew ever more bitter against Israel in recent years, most often mak ing no distinction between religious Jews (whom he professed to respect) and political Zionists. Until recently, he made no exception to his ban on Jews entering Saudi Arabia and distributed free copies of that discredited anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the (Learned...
...their support to them. Says Francisco Pinto Balsemào, editor of the weekly magazine Expresso and a founder of the Popular Democrats: "The Communists have already imposed their view of socialism on the country through the Revolutionary Council and through nationalization. I'm a nonCommunist, not an antiCommunist. But I'm more inclined to be an anti-Communist as each day passes...
Required Reading. Mesquita's editorial page remains rigidly antiCommunist. It abhors any tinkering with private enterprise. But the news columns have a less conservative tone. The pa per's liberal reporters are not compelled to follow the boss's views...
Strauss has no need to establish credentials in domestic matters. Since 1949 he has represented Weilheim in the Bundestag and held important Cabinet posts in previous governments, including Defense and Finance. A champion of law-and-order, an advocate of a militarily strong Germany, and an uncompromising antiCommunist, he became the symbol of cold war intransigence...