Word: anticommunist
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...fact, I didn't understand how truly monumental, and morally important, Reagan's anticommunist vision was until I visited the Soviet Union in 1987. My first night there, I was escorted to the Bolshoi Ballet by two minders from the U.S.-Canada Institute. The Russians were thrilled that I had figured out the Cyrillic alphabet and was able to read the program. The young woman on my left rewarded me with a smile-a rare public act in that terrifying regime-and a whispered encouragement: reform was coming. Glasnost and perestroika, she assured me, were real. The minder...
...taken with John F. Kennedy's candidacy in 1960, mostly because the Senator was Catholic and anticommunist, like Califano's parents. He worked hard for Kennedy in New York, and when J.F.K. became President, Califano, tired of practicing tax law, volunteered to work in the Pentagon, where he eventually became one of Robert McNamara's "whiz kids...
Nuclear scientist who was a key developer of the atom bomb, and a rabid and controversial anticommunist in the 1950s...
DIED. MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK, 105, charismatic, imperious anticommunist politician and widow of the nationalist Chinese leader; in New York City (see page...
...history. During World War II, the brilliant, Hungarian-born physicist, fearful that Hitler was building an A-bomb, was among those who got Albert Einstein to nudge F.D.R. into starting what became the Manhattan Project. After the war, Teller pushed for the "super"--the H-bomb. The rabid anticommunist became a scientific pariah in the 1950s for implying that his former boss, Manhattan Project head J. Robert Oppenheimer, was a security risk. Teller was considered the model for Dr. Strangelove, the bomb-loving scientist in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 movie. In the 1980s, Teller backed Ronald Reagan's nukes-based...