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That first issue was typical of all that followed. There was an article called "How to Keep Young Mentally," another titled "Watch Your Dog and Be Wise," and a third on "The Firefly's Light." The magazine tended to be conservative, Republican and antiCommunist, as well as upbeat, inspiring and often simplistic...
...April 6 Movement is the most visible, and most violence-prone, member of a new constellation of radical opposition groups that is sometimes called the Third Force, because it is both anti-Marcos and antiCommunist. The Third Force is composed mainly of middle-class Filipinos, many of them devout Catholics, who believe that the violent overthrow of Marcos' eight-year-old martial law regime is morally justified. Their reasoning: corruption and rigged elections have made peaceful opposition futile...
...allowing them to ship arms across his territory and establish training camps along his border. The Sandinistas even set up their government in exile in San José. That role apparently caused some frictions with Washington at the time, but the Carazo government remains strongly pro-U.S. and antiCommunist. Says former Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio Segreda confidently: "If the extreme left takes power in El Salvador, the leftists rest-of but not Central Costa America Rica." will go to Perhaps so. If it came to that, however, it would be small consolation to admire one shining pearl...
Staunchly antiCommunist, the Shah dreamed of making Iran a military power, the protector of the Persian Gulf. Convinced that he was a reliable and unassailable ally, Washington-most notably the Nixon Administration-encouraged him to build up his arsenal. He did-to the tune of $36 billion. By 1978, Iran had one of the world's most sophisticated collections of advanced weaponry, including F-14 jet fighters and a variety of guided-missile systems. Meanwhile 63,000 of Iran's 66,000 villages had neither piped water nor electricity. The capital of Tehran (pop. 5 million) lacked...
...anti-Communism [June 9] was somehow irrational. The sooner we have a foreign policy based on a genuine understanding of Communism, the sooner there will be some hope for the survival and expansion of democracy in the world. To be a true democrat, one cannot be less than antiCommunist...