Word: anticommunists
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Tired of seeing their community portrayed as a martial camp in the Everglades, moderate Cuban Americans in Miami are finally raising their voices above the din of the city's Spanish-language, anticommunist talk radio. Political debates that used to be whispered in Little Havana kitchens are now held in clubs where the rhythms of once forbidden Cuban salsa bands like Los Van Van resound. Members of the new Cuban-American guard despise Castro too--but not so much that they disdain the First Amendment. As a result, they see their ascendancy as more than a chance to democratize Miami...
...former leaders of the anticommunist movement in Moscow warned the U.S. government of this scenario. Indirectly, Putin's election is the result of the shortsighted policy of the U.S. and the international financial institutions toward Russia. ALEXANDRE FEDOROVSKI Silverdale, Wash...
Stability in relations between Beijing and Taipei has long been maintained by the "One China" policy, a sort of don't-ask-don't-tell illusion which holds that they're part of the same sovereign entity - a policy with which Taiwan's anticommunist leaders for years deluded themselves that they were the mainland?s true rulers. China, for its part, has convinced itself that Taiwan will be reincorporated under mainland rule along the same lines as Hong Kong. But whereas Hong Kong's fate was decided by its British colonial rulers, Taiwan's is in the hands...
...personality and presidency. The 100,000 or so deaths during the first Chechen war were regrettable, Western officials said. His character was sometimes a problem, but things were never boring with Boris, they added indulgently. He insulted the West but never broke with it. He was firmly and uncompromisingly anticommunist...
...Indonesia invaded the former Portuguese colony in 1975 ? with a nod and a wink from Washington, which saw Jakarta as a key anticommunist ally in the region ? and killed as much as one third of its population in 24 years of trying to subdue East Timor. International pressure forced Jakarta to agree to the independence referendum, but the government fears that losing East Timor would simply spur secessionist movements inside Indonesia ? which, after all, is an archipelago of diverse ethnic, religious and linguistic identities united only by the fact that they were once all colonized by the Dutch. With anti...