Word: anticommunist
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...DIED. SULAMI DJOYOPRAWIRO, 77, former leader in the Indonesian Communist Party who spent 20 years in prison under the Suharto regime; in Jakarta. After her 1987 release, Sulami?who in 1949 founded the communist-affiliated Indonesian Women's Movement?dedicated herself to assisting victims of Suharto's anticommunist purges...
...Angola's remote Moxico province. Savimbi founded UNITA in 1966 to fight Portuguese colonialism, but when the country gained independence in 1975 he lost power to the then-Marxist MPLA, which has remained in government ever since. He won support from the West by portraying himself as an anticommunist freedom fighter before becoming internationally isolated after refusing to accept the results of the country's first-ever elections in 1992 and then rejecting three subsequent peace accords, ensuring the continuation of the country's bloody civil war which has claimed more than half a million lives. DENIED PARDON. LORI BERENSON...
...security-driven. Resources will flow to enhance security relationships at the expense of development assistance. Security alliances will define partnership. We fear that it's back to the bad old days of supporting 'our son-of-a-bitch.' " (A reference to the Cold War rationale for the U.S. backing anticommunist dictators no matter how poor their human rights record...
...personal tragedy for the Ginger family came as a result of what is definitely one of Harvard’s strongest—and least publicized—anticommunist actions during the McCarthy...
Hanssen got something of a late start in the spy business. He was born April 18, 1944, in Chicago to a veteran cop engaged for nearly 30 years in local anticommunist intelligence work. He was raised as a Lutheran on a street lined with towering elms in a middle-class neighborhood of northwest Chicago. Next-door neighbors remember Bob as polite, a good kid who did well in school and pleased his teachers. He went to the select liberal-arts Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., where he majored in chemistry but had few extracurricular activities, unusual in the busy, close...