Word: anticommunists
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...miscreant, the U.S. has sometimes overlooked or even pampered another, potentially greater source of trouble in the same region. The American obsession with Cuba as the Soviet cat's-paw in the Western Hemisphere was one factor that led Washington to support Panama's Manuel Noriega. As an anticommunist, Noriega qualified, in Franklin Roosevelt's famous phrase, as "our son of a bitch." Not until the cold war faded and the war on drugs escalated did Noriega earn his place on the CIA's dart boards and a one-way trip to Miami, where he now sits in jail...
...June balloting the U.D.F. had won only 144 seats, compared with the Socialists' 211. But Zhelev, 55, a philosopher turned politician and longtime anticommunist, managed to hold his own fractious movement together at a time when the rifts in the Socialist Party were growing wider daily. In the end, he won the presidency with the help of votes from reformers within the Socialist Party. The new President will have the power to call fresh parliamentary elections...
They could be right. Ever since last year's wave of anticommunist revolutions, Albania's Stalinist-style regime has wavered between digging in and opening up. At first it said it would remain faithful to the orthodox Marxism of longtime leader Enver Hoxha. But last May, Ramiz Alia, who came to * power after Hoxha's death in 1985, abolished restrictions on religious observance and granted citizens the right to travel abroad...
...ruling was a lifeline for Republicans who have been losing their cutting issues: military strength, anticommunist vigilance, no new taxes and opposition to abortion. What remains is the gut "values issues" that George Bush exploited in 1988. At a Rose Garden photo-op during which he received a statue of the Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima, the President professed not to be playing politics: "Amending the Constitution to protect the flag is not a matter of partisan politics . . . It's an American issue." While implying that defending the Bill of Rights was not quite American, Bush left...
...establish an independent state in the southern part of the country. Of the 3 million ethnic Karens living in Burma, one-fourth have fled to jungle villages in the south, where the 5,000-man Karen army is based. Ignored or forgotten by most of the world, the anticommunist Karens rate attention only from a few evangelical Christian charities and Soldier of Fortune magazine...